[ilaksh]

It should show the hostname in the prompt.

Check out the `fish` shell and the fisherman plugin manager. The way I use fish is manually running it on top of bash so I can just exit if I run into a command that doesn't work right the first time, although this probably isn't necessary anymore since they made the syntax more compatible.

You might look into SSHFS.

It's also quite possible to set up a graphical environment on a remote server like a VPS.

neovim (nvim) works for me. Also micro is pretty good.

You might look into mosh for better perceived latency although I find it isn't usually necessary.

tmux is popular. Although for me just a good graphical terminal with tabs works fine.