Guys, I've got a Linux server which I need to be able to edit a few configuration files on via SSH. Yeah, I probably could try to look up a way to download the files to my mac locally, open them in Text Edit, edit them, then reupload them to the server as the modified versions, but then you stand a chance of ownerships getting kurfunctified, and worse, permissions going screw on me, thus making me have to chmod everything back to normal. What a pain in the behaunkis, especially if I don't know the permissions and owner to start with. Yeah yeah, I know, I know, ls is my friend. The problem I'm having is, everything works fine. I can use Voiceover all day long to read the terminal window in detail, but as soon as I go into nano, or pico, or God forbid, vi/vim, things start getting kind a weird. As I arrow in all four directions around the conf file, I find that what is being read isn't quite normally where my actual cursor is located. Usually the insertion point will be either a line above or below, or a character before or after. It's quite inconsistent what it does, so I can't exactly give you a definite pattern. I've been kind of learning to deal with it, but it's at the point now, where it is becoming incredibly annoying, and I do mean, incredibly! I'm seeing this both on Mavericks, and! on Yosemite. I definitely do have Voiceover set to read the character that the cursor is under, not the one it passes. Obviously, because of this behavior, this means, if I'm not extra extra careful, I'll wind up either deleting something I don't mean to, uncommenting things I don't need/want to, inserting things where they don't belong, or worst case scenareo, totally booger bucking up the file to the point where I run whatever is attached to the configuration, and garbage in, garbage out, bad data in, puke comes out. So, is there really an easy way to consistently via SSH use a text editer to edit conf files? If not, then I'm really screwed, I guess, mainly because I don't have the hardware resources right now to run a full fledged Linux system, and I'm neither at a position, unfortunately, where I can reliably run a virtual machine either. Even if I could, the server I need to access isn't on my localhost, so I'd have to SSH in anyway, one way or another. Any help is profusely! appreciated. Chris. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --->
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