Is it possible to open a file from a remote host with Kate like you can with vim:
vim scp://root@cc3//var/log/dp.log?
I’ve tried the following but neither option seems to work:
kate scp://root@cc3//var/log/dp.log & and kate fish://root@cc3//var/log/dp.log &
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Answer
By design, Kate interacts with user by dialogs, while you can also start editing a file in kate from command line with:
kate /file/to/open
Please do note that if you are not inside the kde/plasme desktop enviroment, kate may not be able to handle external files.
In this case, you can mount a remote filesystem with sshfs.
Example:
sshfs -p PORT_NUMBER USERNAME@SERVER:/path/to/remote/filesystem /mnt/remote_filesystem
Once done, you’ll be able to:
kate /mnt/remote_filesystem/file_to_edit_with_kate
Following suggestion in comments, you can also install the kio-extra libraries, problably not available on your no-kde desktop
sudo apt update sudo apt install kio-extras
Restarting your kate, you’ll have your remote connections at hand inside the “+ Other locations” tab
