Re: [SLE] gnome version of fish:// ???

On Thursday 09 November 2006 10:39, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 11/9/06, John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fish is just an ssh shell. Why not just ssh into the machine
and launch any tool you want on the file?

well John I asked for the ability to use a graphical text editor, so
that I can see the xml document with all it's formatting (indents ...
so the sectioning is clear)

Do you know of a text editor that I could run from a server that has
no gui installed, that will do this? That would be great ...

No gui installed on the server does not matter because you
have a gui installed on your workstation.

There is a terminology gotcha with regard to X servers.

An X server runs on the local machine - it provides an X session
to the remote machine which doesn't even need xorg or X11 installed.

So any text editor that might exist on said remote machine (and which
is graphical in nature) can display on your machine thru the ssh tunnel.
The editing is done on the remote machine, with screen/mouse/and keyboard
work done on your machine.

Fish on the other hand is a file transfer mechanism
and it brings a copy of the remote file local and allows you
to edit it locally. If you save it, it transfers your copy back.

It will usually be faster to transfer it with fish, and edit locally
because X sessions over slow links are a nightmare, but
you could just as well transfer it with scp or sftp, edit it and then
put it back.

Fish simply hides the sftp command line from your view.




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