hi
after some time working in ubuntu and vim I just came back to slickedit and mac os x. I was always one of those mac users that complained about the ugly motif user interface. I was terribly wrong. The x11 compatible interface is **one of slickedit coolest features**. Its just totally underselled.
If you develop serverside or non-gui applications, I think the best dev setup is to have the development machine as a virtual machine. You can snapshot it, reset it, you can easily carry your super complicated server setup as a virtual image on a harddrive.
On the same time its is absolutely important that the virtual machine uses as less memory as possible. If it slows you down, its not usable. This is one the reasons I use vim.
I can have all that with slickedit. It's a bit like the 'Unity' feature on Vmware, but better. There is no difference noticable if you run it from your host machine or the virtual client. The whole setup feels very ligthweight and snappy.
So theoretically you can install slickedit on vps, and start it from everywhere with a X console.
# Connect to machine:
ssh -X -Y me@debianos.org
# then start slickedit
/opt/slickedit/bin/vs
bunti
