EXPERIMENTAL
This is a port of my rmate shell script to Nim. Current state is: seems working, but be careful: i am just learning Nim :)
TextMate 2 adds a nice feature, where it is possible to edit files on a remote server using a helper script. The tool needs to be copied to the server, you want to remote edit files, on. After that, open your TM2 preferences and enable "Allow rmate connections" setting in the "Terminal" settings and adjust the setting "Access for" according to your needs:
It's a good idea to allow access only for local clients. In this case you need to open a SSH connection to the system you want to edit a file on and specify a remote tunnel in addition:
ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 user@example.com
If you are logged in on the remote system, you can now just execute
rmate test.txt
Please have a look at the sections "Remote client connection" or "SSL secured client connection" if ssh is not available or in environments where remote port forwarding could result in conflicts for example with concurrent users.
On some machines, where port forwarding is not possible, you can allow access for "remote clients". Just ssh or telnet to the remote machine and execute:
rmate -H textmate-host test.txt
To secure your TextMate, rmate supports SSL secured connections and client certificate authentication. See the section "SSL secured client connection" below for details.
This version of rmate supports SSL secured connections and client certificate authentication. For this to work it's recommended to configure TextMate to allow connections from local clients only.
Next you must install a proxy supporting SSL -> non-SSL connections like stunnel or haproxy on your Mac. Details regarding this would be to much for this documentation. For haproxy there is an example configuration available.
Have a look at this excellent tutorial for details on how to create self-signed SSL server certificates and certificates for client side certificate authentication.
Create a PEM file of the client certificate by merging the client certificate and the client certificate key file, for example:
cat ca.crt ca.key > ca.pem
Copy the resulting client certificate file over to the machine you have installed rmate on and you want to edit files from.
To enable SSL encrypted connections, the --ssl flag needs to be specified as argument
for the rmate command. Additionally the --cert ... flag needs to be specified if
client side certificate authentication must be used. To verify the SSL server certificate
on rmate side, you can additional specify the --verify flag. This flag should be ommited
when using self-signed certificates.
Optionally the flags can be configured in the rmate configuration file, similar to host and port settings:
ssl=yes
ssl_cert=file
ssl_verify=yes
Note that the ssl_verify setting should be omitted when using self-signed certificates.
Example session: Editing html file located on an SGI o2: https://github.com/aurora/rmate/wiki/Screens
Edit specified file
$ ./rmate [arguments] file-path
Read text from stdin
$ echo "hello TextMate" | ./rmate [arguments] -
-H, --host HOST Connect to HOST. Use 'auto' to detect the host from
SSH. Defaults to $#.
-p, --port PORT Port number to use for connection. Defaults to $#.
--ssl Use SSL encrypted connection.
--cert FILE Certificate file (PEM format) for client side certificate
authentication.
--verify Verify peer for SSL connection.
-w, --[no-]wait Wait for file to be closed by TextMate.
-l, --line LINE Place caret on line number after loading file.
-m, --name NAME The display name shown in TextMate.
-t, --type TYPE Treat file as having specified type.
-n, --new Open in a new window (Sublime Text).
-f, --force Open even if file is not writable.
-v, --verbose Verbose logging messages.
-h, --help Display this usage information.
--version Show version and exit.
Some default parameters (host and port) can be configured by defining them
as the environment variables RMATE_HOST and RMATE_PORT or by putting them
in a configuration file. The configuration files loaded are /etc/rmate.rc
and ~/.rmate.rc, e.g.:
host: auto # prefer host from SSH_CONNECTION over localhost
port: 52698
Alternative notation for configuration file is:
host=auto
port=52698
The precedence for setting the configuration is (higher precedence counts):
- default (localhost, 52698)
- /etc/rmate.rc
- ~/.rmate/rmate.rc
- ~/.rmate.rc
- environment variables (RMATE_HOST, RMATE_PORT)
Use with caution. This software may contain serious bugs. I can not be made responsible for any damage the software may cause to your system or files.
rmate
Copyright (C) 2015-2017 by Harald Lapp harald@octris.org
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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