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Main thing that's kept me from using it is lack of good support for remote editing. Once it's got something that it'll fit the way I want to use it much nicer.

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What I use on OSX is "ExpanDrive", it's a nicely polished paid app that lets you mount sshfs drives system wide (your server only needs to support ssh access). With that you can manipulate remote files with whatever local program you have, it's fully transparent.

I've tried a few of those on windows but they all seem to have terrible latency, I think they're constantly reconnecting to the server whenever an operation happens.

On OSX it works well enough for me to work directly on the server if I have LAN connection or good internet with low latency. If the connection is shaky I'm working locally, sync with Rsync and use ExpanDrive to check on result files. But yes, it's a question of managing your expectations.

Switch to Vim or Emacs and you don't have to worry about remote editing plugins anymore!

That's largely the way I do it, but I have to use windows at my current job, so a good terminal isn't really present. putty does ok but it's cumbersome compared to openssh, and cygwin makes it better to use but terminals aren't very good. My current setup is ConEMU and cygwin.

Trying to get permission to setup some kind of VM on the machine, (likely VB) so I can use what I'm used to.

Alternatively people could continue using their editor of choice without having an evimgelist shouting at them every 30 seconds.

Have you tried using rsync or a similar outside-the-editor utility to keep files in sync between your local workstation and the remote server?

Have you tried Nuclide? It has good remote project support since FB web engineers have to develop on remote servers.

I tried Nuclide but unfortunately it doesn't play well with the custom build-time include paths that we have. They are available as environment variables on the coding environment but Nuclide can't make use of them.

There's a remote-sftp package that allows a bit of this. But I've only used it for light fixes and config file changes on servers, never for real full remote development.

What kind of remote editing: edit files stored in a virtual machine while you develop? or edit files stored in a remote server you administer?

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