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> On Apr 9, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 computer locally, open them in Notepad, 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.  The problem I'm having is, whether I use Putty, or any other
> SSH terminal client I've so far found, everything works fine.  I can  use
> the mouse pointer or the W E cursor 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 file, I find that what is being read isn't quite normally where my
> actual cursor is located.  Usually the cursor 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!  Obviously, 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, totally booger bugging 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.
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