As an alternative to editing files on the player, Emacs will quite happily use FTP to edit the files from another machine. You might want to use a terminal session to remount the drives read-write; I guess you can do that from Emacs, but I haven't investigated in detail.

Religious disclaimer: If you're one of the pitiful fools who don't use Emacs, just pretend I didn't write this.
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