editing linux conf files on windows?

[hank]

is it easy to set up?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Humberto Rodriguez" <sub at hrfinancial.com>
To: "'Linux for blind general discussion'" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: editing linux conf files on windows?


> To add something to the excellent explanation given to you by Tim, let
> me tell you how I do it. 
> 
> I use Samba.  Samba allows you to map a drive letter to the remote
> Unix machine and reach it from your Windows machine as if it were a
> drive in your own computer.  That way, from my Windows computer, I
> open a file in my Unix server, lets say for example, from my text
> editor, I open t:\home\abc\cgi-bin\whatever\myscript.pl then edit it
> and save it with Unix line endings.  It is as easy as editing a file
> in Windows.  Similarly, I may create a new Unix file in the server.  I
> could also copy files to and from the server, as easily as copying
> from one folder to another.  I never use FTP.  Samba usually comes
> with Linux.
> 
> Using Telnet, I take care of the permissions.  You could also do it
> with SSH or FTP, but I use Telnet.
> 
> Beware however, that both Telnet and Samba are security risks and need
> to be restricted.  I have mine restricted only to certain static IPs.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Humberto
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tim Chase
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:07 AM
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Re: editing linux conf files on windows?
> 
>> hello is there a windows text editor that will save and
>> edit conf files eg I want to log in via sftp grab a conf
>> file from linux box configure it on windows then save it
>> in the unix format that it came in put it back in the dir
>> on my linux box there a editor that I can edit my conf
>> files with?
> 
> You've got a couple options:
> 
> 1)  you can ssh into the remote box and edit it with a linux 
> editor.  This is usually the approach I take, and it works 
> quite well for me.
> 
> 2)  you can do as you describe, and FTP the file, then use a 
> Unix-aware editor on Windows, and then FTP the file back. 
> In addition to the editors mentioned by Humberto, there's 
> vim/gvim.  The nice thing about learning this beast is that 
> it runs on both Windows and Linux (and BSD, and MacOS, and...)
> 
> 3)  you can use a network/sftp aware editor.  Vim has the 
> "netrw" plugin which allows you to directly edit files over 
> FTP, SFTP, HTTP, DAV, RCP, rsync and others.  There's plenty 
> of online help in Vim on the netrw plugin at
> 
> :help netrw
> 
> I'm afraid, being a vim-user, I don't know of any other 
> editors that allow this.  I presume emacs can do the same, 
> but I wouldn't know where to start, using it.
> 
> 4)  lastly, you can do exactly as you're currently doing, 
> only exploit FTP's built-in ability to do DOS-to-UNIX 
> line-ending conversion.  If you FTP the file in ASCII mode 
> (rather than BINARY mode), it will translate the 
> line-endings to your local (Windows) scheme.  You can then 
> edit the file with whatever editor you like.  Then, when you 
> FTP it back, just make sure that it's in ASCII mode again, 
> and FTP will do the translation from DOS line-endings to 
> UNIX line-endings as it uploads the file
> 
> Hope this gives you some options to explore on how to work best.
> 
> -tim
> 
> 
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