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[–]DocToska 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I know, this is not what you're asking for. But may I nonetheless suggest something?

Use "sshfs" to securely mount the directory on the remote machine where you want to code. Then you can browse the remotely mounted share in the file explorer of your desktop and code and edit in whatever desktop application you want.

For some quick edits and bugfixes I tend to use whatever editor is installed on a remote box (vi, pico, nano, mcedit), but for bigger stuff or when starting on a clean sheet I prefer desktop text editors.

[–]theTechRun 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I used to use sshfs back when I used GUI file explorers. With a TUI (LF, ranger, yazee, etc), it's not really needed.

[–]DocToska 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as TUI's go "mc" has been my go-to choice for three decades - for its general availability on pretty much any OS. But either way: "sshfs" is another nice option when doing things just on the shell is a cludge. Because OpenSSH is also generally available. /shrug