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I am using a Windows-7 PC and I have to edit and save files which are stored on a Linux server which I usually access using PUTTY and edit them using Vi editor.

Vi editor is hard to use for me (as I am windows user).

is there any editor by which I can connect to server and modify the files on the server and save it?.

Update: I can use FTP because I can't install anything on the Linux server but I can install anything on the Windows PC. If the Editor has file browser it is added advantage.

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  • You could mount the remote storage e.g. via SSHFS and then use any of your favorite Windows editors. Would that suit you? If not, you need to specify by which means that editor can access the files on the Linux machine (FTP?) – Izzy♦ Feb 15 '16 at 11:56
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    @Izzy i updated my question. – ގαиDΣΣP Feb 15 '16 at 12:13
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    Thanks! So if I understand correctly, an editor with a built-in FTP browser would be a fitting solution? Such as Notepad++ with its NppFTP module? – Izzy♦ Feb 15 '16 at 12:53
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    wow it worked like charm and it has file browser also! Thanks! – ގαиDΣΣP Feb 15 '16 at 12:55
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    Vim is hard to use for any user who has not familiarized himself with it, and its concepts. Once you do actually learn that editor (and I mean learning, not just memorizing the most-often-used keystrokes), you'll find just what it is that makes people still use it. I'd recommend doing so. – DevSolar Feb 15 '16 at 13:49
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Looks like the perfect match for you is Notepad++, which ships with an FTP file browser:

NppFTP NppFTP config
Notepad++ with opened FTP browser / FTP config (source: StackOverflow; click images for larger variants)

For details on how to configure it, please follow up to our sister site's article Notepad++ with Local and FTP synchronizer.

Hot does this fit your requirements:

  • you can use a graphical editor on Windows as you're used to
  • you can access the files located on the Linux machine via its built-in FTP browser
  • it comes for free (oh, you didn't ask for that? I take donations if you insist ;)

And just in case: The Notepad++ homepage can be found here.

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    thanks you saved me from Vi editor headache. +1. – ގαиDΣΣP Feb 15 '16 at 13:08
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    You're welcome! I'm using both – and which to prefer entirely depends on the situation. But I fully understand how you feel :) – Izzy♦ Feb 15 '16 at 13:10
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UltraEdit, a very powerful (!!) editor with "traditional" interface I've been using a lot before I switched to Vim.

  • built-in SSH client
  • file browser

It's available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Not free, but IMHO worth the money, and coming with a free trial so you can give it a test.

I personally rank it as the #2 editor after Vim on any platform.

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I would like to recommend Atom (the hackable text editor - from the people who brought you GitHub).

There are a couple of FTP packages for Atom, haven't tried them myself.

More at https://atom.io/packages/search?q=ftp

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    Thanks @amedee for your answer, but Atom loads slow in windows when compared to Notepad++ and Sublime 3. Anyways +1 – ގαиDΣΣP Feb 16 '16 at 7:29
  • I don't know that, I use it on Linux. Sometimes I have the need to edit files on a headless server and I am not in the mood to use vi incantations. :) – Amedee Van Gasse Feb 16 '16 at 7:40
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Another vote for Notepad++; we only have UltraEdit allowed at work, and it does the job and nicely and has built-in ftp. I've rebuilt the popup menu to the items I use most.

But, np++ abides by more standards, and I find more intuitive. I made UltraEdit into something useful for me after over a year of using, still find it clunky. np++ was slick out of the box.

eg "ctrl-w" toggles word wrap in UltraEdit; np++, it... well, closes the top window.

I find np++ deals w/ columnar data soooo much more flexibly than does UltraEdit; the latter is "modal," altho does perfunctory selection and copy out of mode.

I prefer the way that np++ does searches and replaces for multiline data more intuitive.

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Try Far Manager It is a console application with a powerful text editor, file browsing, and FTP support.

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As other people have noted, using the FTP capabilities of IDEs such as Notepad++ might work well for you.

Though, if you want a text editor which you can run on the Linux server through SSH with PUTTY, you might want to use nano. Nano generally comes by default on most Linux servers.

Nano is a command line-based text editor like vim, however, it is much easier for beginners to use than vim. It relies far less on keyboard commands and is much more intuitive to people who are used to more graphical-based text editors.

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SynWrite (free) is OK for this task: it has editor and FTP plugin [ported from Notepad++, so it has simiar UI].

To call ftp, show side panel (using icon on toolbar "arrow left") and call FTP tab, then create FTP account using FTP icon "gear".

Synwrite

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