Run the Eclipse EPIC Perl plugin on the remote project / files

Question

I recently started a new job where all development is done on a remote dev server. I really like Eclipse as a central development environment for all the different things I'm working on, and I'm not a big fan of emacs or vi. I will use emacs if I need to change something quickly, but after I really want it to be normal, I really start to miss Eclipse.

However, is there a way to use Eclipse with EPIC to develop Perl on a remote server? I can live without debugging functionality, but the correct syntax highlighting and the ability to create projects would be really, really nice. So far, I have tried using the remote browser plugin for Eclipse to view the remote developer server and open files in Eclipse this way, but this is far from ideal. Anyone have any better ideas?

Answer 1

Answering my own question (which no one seems to have looked or cared for, but what the hell maybe someone will have the same problem):

• Remove system explorer from here .
• Install RSE on ssh to your remote server.
• Create a new empty EPIC project (or using any plugin / language you want).
• Right-click the project, select New Folder, then Advanced → Link to an alternate location (linked folder)
• Switch the file system to RSE, and then just go to some folder on your remote system that you want to become a project and add it.

What, everything is ready. Now, when you open your project in Eclipse, you will see this folder with all the necessary code, and you can use it the same way as locally.

The main problem that I am currently facing is that at the moment I can not get her to perform error checking, which is too bad. I will work on finding a job for this and update here if I do.

Answer 2

If you are running Linux, you can also mount the remote drive / folder using sshfs and use the same linked-label technology. "I do this all the time to develop Java EE. Sshfs is also very reliable, unlike the Windows network shares installed on Linux with Samba-Client. (Sometimes the Windows sharing service is confused and needs to be restarted on the remote server. I use one liner for PowerShell for this "restart-service -name" sharing service or something like that.)