PHP Editor for SSH?

Something instead of Pico and Vim?

[craig1972]

I don't have X-Windows (KDE, Gnome etc), only SSH access to my web hosting server.

I am looking for some program that has the simplicity of Pico, but allows me color-coding functionality of Vim while coding PHP files.

Any ideas?

[dcrombie]

Maybe something like emacs or jered? The color editors are never going to be as simple as nano/pico/joe/...

[ChilliTwister]

What's your problem with the syntax highlighting of vim over ssh? Usually it should work like a charm and it is much more lightweight than emacs.
Or is it the usability issue?

[craig1972]

Thanks.

Joe and Jed are not installed. I didn't like Emacs at all.

Vim's syntax highlighting is neat but it is very counterintuitive. Why can an EXIT command not be implemented as CTRL Z or CTRL X, why the insistence on being so geeky? Etc.