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alouch47
Sep 06, 2010Guide
SSH shell: He says "Let there be colors" Shell Beginner Guid
Modified : 2010-12-31 Hi everyone. Not quite sure it has already been posted, so I thought I just share some tips. It's just "basic" Linux knowledge, so it won't be of great interest for those wh...
MichaelR64
Sep 06, 2010Aspirant
John Bean wrote:
MichaelR64 wrote: I used WInSCP to get into the machine and found that a double click on a file brings up the default editor of winscp which is good enough for most editing in windows.
I mean stuff like editing conf files.
I'm very uncomfortable about the idea of remotely editing linux config files this way, especially if the editor is running on a Windows machine which uses a different definition of "text" in the context of text files. Much safer to run a local native editor and rely on the remote (Windows) PC to provide only the UI.
Winscp is aware of this and quite configurable
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