Mark Post wrote:
Any graphical editor you use on Linux/390 is going to be pretty slow. Emacs isn't any different, really, than vi. They're both (n)curses based, with an alternate, X-enabled version. You can use gvim (used to be xvim I think) instead of just vi(m), but again, due to the graphics, it's going to suck CPU and be at least a little slow.
It will also suck modem bandwidth like you don't want to believe. I sometimes run an X desktop or a Windows XP desktop through a modem, and you really don't want pretty graphical backgrounds or 1600x1200 screens.
How much editing are you doing that you can't just use vi (or emacs)? Once I get a system up and running, I hardly ever edit anything. You can get into trouble with editing files on your workstation and using FTP to upload them (aside from the inherent insecurity of non-SSL-enabled FTP). Just be careful of your line endings. Make sure you don't have any CRLFs in your files once you upload them. If you miss some, scripts (and other things) start spitting out _strange_ errors that usually take a while to figure out are related to line endings.
To use ftp, you would (maybe) do something like this ssh zlinux cu - <root pw> cp file-from-protected-area /tmp exit ftp zlinux <user> <pswd> stuff asc get /tmp/whateveritwas quit wordpad whateveritwas <alt><f4> ftp etc etc ssh etc etc cp whateveritwas file-from-protected-area <some commands to give effect to what you did> Frankly, I'd stick with vim or (maybe) the. I prefer vim on Windows:-)
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Taylor Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: full screen editor and SSH Hello gurus, what is a good (full screen) editior to use when you are dialing in remotely. I use SSH to dial into my linux on a VM guest and I am really hooked on using a full screen editor and can't deal with ed or vi. I tried using something like gedit when I dial in from another linux image (using the graphics ability of this remote linux) but it is slow and appears to be pretty buggy. The best thing I've found so far is to ftp a file down to the pc and then edit it with wordpad and then ftp it back. I've seen emacs - is this my only alternative? and are there any dangers in using wordpad and ftp?
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