Hello,
I use Cygwin with ssh although Window-Eyes can't determin the cursor
you can use the mouse to read the terminal window. I also use gvim on
Windows with netrw script and puTTY pscp to edit files on a UN*X
(FreeBSD) server.
David Gerry
Boston, Massachusetts
On 4/9/2015 12:03 PM, Steve Jacobson via Talk wrote:
> In the past when I accessed Unix systems, I found that it was necessary to
> add some cursor delay. I don't know if
> this applies in your case, but there are a number of terminal settings as
> well, and you may need to be sure the
> settings on your client are matching those on the system to which you are
> connecting.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 07:38:07 -0400, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk 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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