Midnight Commander for Editing on E71

I use putty on the E71 to ssh into various server to do sys admin type things and also to do a little python programming remotely. I'd not found a nice unix editor to work over putty from the limited keyboard on the phone. Recently I started playing around with Midnight Commander (mc). It turns out that the internal editor to Midnight Commander, mcedit, is actually reasonably easy to use on the E71.