Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:23:58 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1197231249.7ec844@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for online text editor Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071204162235.0248a278@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20071204201405.GB88299@skytracker.ca> References: <20071204191130.GA86443@skytracker.ca> <6.0.0.22.2.20071204134831.024c9de0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20071204201405.GB88299@skytracker.ca>
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At 02:14 PM 12/4/2007, David Banning wrote:
> > running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run
> > mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program
> > out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in
> > plain text - (not a gui html editor) ?
> >
> > I use putty to ssh to remote servers and use vi to edit files once
> > logged in to the server.
>
>But putty has be installed on the machine you are working on, right?
>
>I need to have access on, say a library computer, where no local software
>can be installed. I can log in to webmin and edit the files via their
>file manager. The actual edit process does -not- appear to be java,
>but the file manager to select the file -is- java so I can't select
>the file to edit.
Putty is pretty much standalone executable, at least the one for Windows
is, you can run it from a thumb drive.
If you need a web based application, you can install firefox on a thumb
drive as well.
-Derek
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