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I am looking for a GUI text editor on Linux with a GUI which will allow me to connect to other machines via SSH and edit text files on these machines.

Is there such a thing or is there another way to do this with an encrypted connection?

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[–] bishoponarope 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could use vscode I suppose, a bit overkill as a basic text editor, but there's an ssh/remote shell plugin that will work well, and I'm sure you'll find other uses for it.

[–] trymeout 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am considering vscode but it is overkill and too bulky for what I am looking for. Just want a simple text editor like notepadqq

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you're running the GUI locally, what makes it "too bulky"?

FWIW, I believe emacs has good support for remote editing, though it requires more configuration than VSCode.

[–] bishoponarope 1 points 1 year ago

My only other suggestion might be notepad++ under wine.

It has, or had at one point anyway, an SSH/sftp function that was useable.

Without testing it mywelf, im not sure how functional it would be under wine for your specific use case though.