Excerpts from Gary Martin's message of Sat Jan 29 16:09:43 +0100 2011: > > I don't have an XO laptops but I do have a VirtualBox Fedora and Ubuntu VMs > > running sugarlabs. What do you use as a Python editor- I was hoping to use > > eclipse but I have used a basic introduction to VIM in my classes so it can > > be anything. I played around in the SugarLabs Pippy editor but I was hoping > > that I could write another machine and import. > > The first things I usually yum install to a new Sugar image are vim and git, > that way I can git clone an Activity repository into the ~/Activities > directory, tinker with it using vim, and easily git commit and git push > changes back to the main repository after testing. If I'm going to be making > large source changes or starting something new I'll often just work on my Mac > using Xcode (my source editor of choice) and scp the Activity directory over > to various Sugar builds for testing.
FWIW, I'm increasingly using sshfs to hack on code that's inside a VM. sshfs allows you to "mount" a "remote" file system that's accessible via ssh/sftp and access it as if it were a "local" file system. That way you can use all the editing / VCS / whatever tools you're used to, without having to install them inside the VM. Because the tools are running on your "real" machine, they work as usual - including things like copy&paste across applications (which requires special "guest additions" in VirtualBox and doesn't work at all in KVM). IIRC I've successfully used a special port of sshfs on MacOS X some time ago. There are also tools for Windows that seem to provide something similar, but I haven't tried them myself. Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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