There's the brilliantly awesome (and I cannot stress this enough) rmate/rsub extensions for Sublime Text.

https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub

Thanks for this link -- for my coworkers who use Sublime, this seems like it is an improvement over what they do know (create a shared directory on their computer to the VM's files).

First option: don't directly modify code on servers. Deploy it.

Second option: Use sshfs and autofs. Works straight at kernel's VFS layer, which is IMHO way saner than any kludges like netrw/rsub/TRAMP/etc.

You use Puppet for that.