I know how to set up the Remote Interpreter in Pycharm and so far remote developing went well.
In some cases though, I cannot hold local copies of the files on the machine I work on for commercial issues.
Is there a way, to develop remotely in Pycharm WITHOUT having local copies of the scripts and other project files?
I just had a similar problem. So far, I found two possibilities to open remote files with PyCharm:
1. Use sshfs to mount remote directory
Like this, the directory will be listed when you browse the files your local computer with PyCharm.
That is described e.g. here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
I was not able to try this solution myself because I don't have sshfs installed and no root priviliges.
2. Use the new PyCharm feature
In PyCharm, just go to Tools - Deployment - Browse Remote Host as described here:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2015/06/feature-spotlight-editing-remote-files/
and add your server.
Choosing SFTP as connection type and using the already existing private key file for key-pair authentication worked for me.
