Vim ships with this feature, it's in a plugin called netrw and enabled by default. Also if you use any desktop linux system, the default text editor can probab

Vim ships with this feature, it's in a plugin called netrw and enabled by default. Also if you use any desktop linux system, the default text editor can probably open files on remote machines (with a wide variety of protocols), just enter the url. In Gnome it's called the Gnome virtual file system (GVFS).