[TxMt] using rsync to enable the project drawer while working on a remote server

[Rob Rix]

On 15-Apr-06, at 10:20 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:

> From the blog:
>
> "Textmate only allows one to use the project drawer if you’re  
> working on a project. Otherwise, there’s no ability to use a drawer  
> or tabs and you’re back to regular multi-window text editing—which  
> stinks. Most people run into this issue while editing files live on  
> a server via sFTP or FTP with Transmit or some other client."
>
> Actually, I've run into this issue plenty of times when working  
> with the *local* filesystem. I bet everyone's experienced this at  
> some point: You end up with lots of files open that don't belong to  
> any particular project, so you have this extra-long Window menu and  
> can't easily jump between open files like you can with project  
> files. It would be nice if TextMate had some kind of "anonymous  
> project" window -- that is, a pseudo-project that looks and acts  
> like a regular project, but instead of representing a folder or  
> specific set of files, it would represent all the open files that  
> don't belong to any project. You know, like BBEdit's file drawer.

Okay, how about making a new project (from the file menu), and  
dragging the files into it?

> "Actually, there are three ways. If Mac OS X could mount a remote  
> sFTP connection one could easily accomplish our goal. It does not.  
> It mounts FTP connections, but they are read-only—so again no go."
>
> However, as has also been pointed out on the list, OS X can mount  
> remote directories via WebDAV, AFS, and NFS. That way, you can  
> create projects on the remote server directly, just as you would on  
> local filesystems. I prefer this solution whenever possible because  
> it's so simple and doesn't need rsync or other special commands.

"Whenever possible" may not be very often however.

Rob