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I am guessing he works at a place that has a lot of servers that he connects to, and he wants to be able to use his editor on whatever server he is on.

I know this is an issue where I work. We have 40 thousand plus servers, and we aren't going to have everyone install their editor of choice on all those machines. If I have an issue I need to check on a server that requires some text editing, I have to use one of the default editors.

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This is the appeal of sshfs - to be able to easily mount remote filesystems and use local tools against them.

One of the best tools I have used with something like this is emacs's tramp-mode. It just works when you connect to another host.

Yeah, but sshfs has been working pretty slow to me.

There is actually this neat hack you can use(if you use VIM) with rsync.

https://github.com/IvRRimum/rsync-vim

I know it's kind of Hacky, but the performance improvement is worth it IMO.

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