kitty has the ability to easily Edit, Open or Download files from a computer into which you are SSHed. In
your SSH session run:
ls --hyperlink=auto
Then hold down Ctrl+Shift and click the name of the file.
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kitty will ask you what you want to do with the remote file. You can choose to Edit it in which case
kitty will download it and open it locally in your EDITOR. As you make changes to the file, they are
automatically transferred to the remote computer. Note that this happens without needing to install any
special software on the server, beyond ls that supports hyperlinks.
SEEALSO:
See the edit-in-kitty command
SEEALSO:
See the Transferfiles kitten
Added in version 0.19.0.
NOTE:
For best results, use this kitten with the sshkitten. Otherwise, nested SSH sessions are not
supported. The kitten will always try to copy remote files from the first SSH host. This is because,
without the ssh kitten, there is no way for kitty to detect and follow a nested SSH session robustly.
Use the Transferfiles kitten for such situations.
NOTE:
If you have not setup automatic password-less SSH access, and are not using the ssh kitten, then, when
editing starts you will be asked to enter your password just once, thereafter the SSH connection will
be re-used.
Similarly, you can choose to save the file to the local computer or download and open it in its default
file handler.
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