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There is no shortage of options for text editors geared towards developers on the Mac, but TextMate is our top pick. It wins out thanks to its massive programming language syntax support, helpful. 12 best Text Editors For Mac. January 30, 2018 0 Comments. A mac text editor can come handy for note taking to programming. A good mac text editor must do two things very well: syntax highlighting (coloration of the code) and auto-completion. Gedit is a Lightweight editor with powerful plugins like external tools and snippet completion. Gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all kinds of text files.

I use a linux machine at work and a mac at home. I can ssh from my machine at home to my work machine. But the only editor that I have access to on the command line then is vi, which I don't like.

Is there a way to use gedit on my mac to edit files remotely over an ssh connection?

This page says that it can be done, but I think that it assumes that you are using gedit on ubuntu. On my mac (os 10.5.8) I don't have the 'bookmark' option when I click 'connect to server'.

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CyberDuck will allow you to edit files over SSH using the Mac text editor of your choice. I recommend TextWrangler.

DavidDavid

Use the -X option when you ssh into your linux machine. If you haven't already installed X11, it's available as an optional install on your OS X install disc. With X11 installed, 'ssh -X user@host' starts X11 and you're ready to use gedit.

Alternatively, you can use Macfusion to mount your linux machine, through ssh, as a file system. You can then use an OS X text editor to edit files on the remote machine.

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Gedit uses gvfs, a virtual filesystem layer which allow him to access files through different protocols, including sftp (which is very probably available if ssh is available). So you're likely already able to use it to edit your remote files with no need to install anything. Just type sftp://youserver/ in the open dialog.

You can also use fuse + sshfs to mount the distant file hierarchy to a local mount point, thus be able to use any application to edit any file. An easy way to do this seems to be through MacFusion.

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Does anybody know if you can setup remote connections in gedit(on mac os x snow leopard), so I don't have to keep ftp'ing up seperately.

I know it can be done on Ubuntu but can't figure out how to do it on a mac, if even possible.

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An application independent solution for this would be sshfs on OSX through MacFUSE. sshfs is also available for Linux.

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This sshfs with a GUI is also available via MacPorts.

There is also a possibility of automatic upload after each file save in Transmit and in Cyberduck (FTP programs).

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