Fix home and end keys in remote shell

$ od -c

<home key pressed>   ^[[7~
<end key pressed>    ^[[8~

Then put in /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc:

"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line

An actual example:

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[3~": delete-char

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sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

How to run sudo on a remote machine:

ssh user@domain.com 'sudo echo "foobar"'

Error:

    sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

Solution:

 ssh -t user@domain.com 'sudo echo "foobar"'

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Sublime text editor tricks

Sublime is not a bad text editor for Linux:

Mount a remote directory:  sshfs username@hostname:/remote/path /local/path

Put a vertical line after 80 characters: Preferences > Settings - User > ... add an entry: "rulers": [80]

Change syntax highlighting colours: Preferences > Browse Packages > Color Scheme - Default > ... edit the Color Scheme file you are using.

{
"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/All Hallow's Eve.tmTheme",
"font_size": 10,
    "rulers": [80],
    "auto_complete": false
}


Shortcuts:

• Shift-F11 = Enter "concentration" mode AKA "distraction free" mode

Developing over FTP

Using Eclipse and RSE plugin:

• Logs in okay
• But seems to always be closing directory sub-trees I've opened in 'Remote Systems' panel
• It wants to do an 'ls' on every parent directory in the hierarchy, every time I change files. Very slow.

Using CurlFtpFS:

• Install in Ubuntu from the software centre
• to mount: curlftpfs -v username:password@server.example.com local_dir/
• to unmount: fusermount -u local_dir/
• Performance is unusably slow... Eclipse wants to know about every single file on the remote server, not just the ones I'm editing.
• Saving the file through Eclipse using CurlFtpFS takes even longer than it would to upload it separately.

Using FileZilla and gedit:

• Browsing is fast
• Editing is fast
• But you have to navigate to every file manually each session, it doesn't remember what you had open
• The system of holding temp files locally is not ideal, but FileZilla detects changes in them very nicely
• You still can't grep over the files as they're all held remotely, and it's a bit fiddly to navigate to a specific file

Editing locally with Eclipse, and uploading after changes are made:

• Write an Ant script to upload any modified files?
• ...to investigate

Remote file browsing

• Mount a remote filesystem via SFTP
• (Mac): http://pqrs.org/macosx/sshfs/
• (Ubuntu): Use software centre
• GUI
• Try http://sshfs-gui.darwinports.com/
• or Mac ports: sudo port install sshfs-gui
• To start: sshfs hostname: mountpoint
• To stop: fusermount -u mountpoint
• Target Management (Remote file browsing in Eclipse via SSH): http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/