Yann B wrote:

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I too am a huge (unfortunate) fan of working on remote files...

This topic has been discussed at great length. Since it is apparent none

of the existing solutions work nicely and as elegantly as working on local

code we all have come up with less than ideal solutions for solving this

problem. I for example use RBrowser because I like that - but again it is

less than perfect. So.. We need a better solution. Writing down the

short list of requirements

    - Tie to Textmate - very closely

    - Allow me to easily create a project out of remote files

    - Allow me to add remote files

    - Allow me to search those remote files

    - Save the file back 

    - Connect via ssh

    - Should be able to routinely (background) poll the remote system 

and determine the status of the file. This should be able to be turned

off or time adjusted based on user needs. I wouldn't need this per se.

    - Should have an integrated browser mechanism which 1) gets on a 

remote system (ssh) 2) allows you to traverse a remote file system

    - Might want to be able to bind a command to a save ( svn 

commit )

feature

    - Might want to be able to bind a command to the file status ( p4 

fstat ) feature

OK what do we need to add shorten or comment on?? Perhaps the cyberduck /

rbrowser / macfuse / Olrik folks are listening. I think David Olrik's

solution is a decent start but needs a bit more polishing. A better

solution can't be far off..

Thoughts??

At this point (unless TextMate 2.0 addresses the issue ;) I think MacFuse pretty much solves everything, so the single one change that I would like to see in textmate is a mechanism to stop and/or set intervals on the project directory scanning routine. I have no idea what that would entail or if it's even feasible, so forgive me Allan if what I'm saying is ludicrous... ;) That single change would make MacFuse usable on projects that have more than 5 files... and solve everything... no?

I agree that would be SUCH nice feature. Obviously I don't know how it works, but couldn't you just take the code that causes a directory scan on focus and disable it. Then worst case have a menu command to refresh it? Also couldn't you get notifications directly from the file system when something changes, just like spotlight does? What is the point of the full directory scan? There must be some reason that it is the way it is, but it is very strange to me, and is somewhat of a black eye on what is other wise one of the best pieces of software I've ever used.