looking for online text editor

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Tue Dec 4 14:24:33 PST 2007


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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