[TxMt] Remote projects

Jason Bainbridge jbainbridge at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 22:02:29 UTC 2005


On 9/20/05, IxokaI <ixokai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/20/05, Ollivier Robert <roberto+textmate at keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:
> > According to Ian White:
> > > That just lets me edit files that I open via the transmit window, right?
> > > I was hoping for a solution where I treat the remote side like the
> > > filesystem, i.e. open tm on a folder.
> >
> > I'd recommend using a version control tool instead of modifying files on
> > the fly.  My personal preference goes to Mercurial[1] but any of the
> > available systems would do (heck, even cvs would. Hmmm maybe not :-))
> 
> Sometimes version controls work. Sometimes they don't. This is one of
> the great few features I really miss from UltraEdit in the old days of
> me doing most of my programming on windows. There are many, many
> circumstances where it is just not an option to use version control to
> edit these remote files.
> 
> Open from SFTP would be a godsend and save -so- much time and effort.
> Transmit'n files back/forth is such a pain :)

Use CyberDuck and edit in place over SSH, it still isn't ideal but it
is better than the back/forth game...


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