Hi all,

I seem to see a lot of people using VSC over ssh to see the files and folders on their servers and edit them more conveniently than compared to nano/vim but I’m looking for alternatives for VSC.

I have an increasing number of servers and hosting things with docker compose. Thus I have a lot of /app/docker folders with numerous docker-compose.yaml and other container specific config files.

I dislike VSC so as an alternative I use Notepad++ with nftp plugin (yap, I’m daily driving Windows) to connect to the servers to see and edit said files.

I also tried Jetbrain’ fleet but it seems to intall some kind of client on the servers it connects to which requires just enough resources to notably slow down my cheap VPSes.

So other than the 3 examples above, what kind of edit do you know/use to connect to servers and edit files there directly?

  • ikus060@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I usually use vim/nano directly. I don’t see the need to edit file directly very often.

    Following good DevOps practice, I usually push server configuration with an ansible playbook and most application are running on Docker. The number of time I need to edit config file is very minimal.

    But I would understand if ansible deployment is a bit too far for your self hosted need.