[boomlinde]

I would rather solve file access at an entirely different level. A filesystem is a reasonable, editor-agnostic abstraction for this, and I can use sshfs to mount a remote directory over SSH in a way that's invisible to whatever tools I prefer to use to edit the files.

If you have a jumphost chain, you can configure that in the SSH config.

I don't know what a devcontainer is exactly, but if it's a container in the sense that it runs a Linux development system, I would investigate whether that, too, could easily be set up for access via SSH or mounted locally through some other mechanism.

[DrBazza]

File access isn't the same as tool access. You need to run tools on your ssh host as well. And a devcontainer does indeed equal a (docker) container. The name is very specific and describes shipping a full developer environments so that 'you' do not have to install gcc-toolset-15, or boost 1.83, or mold, or python 3.11, and so on.

https://containers.dev/

[boomlinde]

> File access isn't the same as tool access.

Running tools remotely isn't the same as remote editing, so you'll have to forgive the misunderstanding.

> You need to run tools on your ssh host as well.

`ssh user@remote tool`. Indeed, the tool you run on the remote host could be a text editor in itself.

[DrBazza]

Interesting. Something to think about. Thanks.