Best environment? My own machine of course ;-) A Unix machine (I'm not picky, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, BSD, it's all fine), running X Windows. And vile as my editor. What else is required? On a few occasions, I use make and m4. I use RCS and CVS often.

I do not understand what you mean by "the remote server". Do you have a development server? Or a vi server? Or do you think that all there is to develop is web applications? I can tell you, the world is more than web.

Abigail