Hi Sascha, On 30 Jan 2011, at 12:10, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org> wrote:
> 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. Thanks for the hint! Sounds like a nice improvement to my usual work flow :-) I'll make sure to give it a run through. Regards, --Gary > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
