[TxMt] The "TextMate Must Have integrated ftp/sftp/ssh" discussion

[Andy Armstrong]

On 23 Feb 2006, at 18:48, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

> Eric O'Brien wrote:
>> What are folks doing that makes them want to see built-in ftp/sftp/ 
>> ssh
>> support in TextMate?  One situation I can imagine is the desire/ 
>> need to
>> open many arbitrary files that are located in many arbitrary  
>> locations
>> on the Internet.  I don't have a good picture of when anyone would be
>> needing to do that though.  Are people doing that?  For me, the  
>> files I
>> want to edit are on my computer.  Periodically they need to be  
>> uploaded
>> to the net, but my editing sessions don't begin from copies that  
>> were on
>> the net.
>
> I have a FreeBSD server in the closet that I try to manage. There  
> it is
> sometimes useful to edit files. I do most small edits with vim, but  
> once
> in a while you end up with a large (config) file that needs some big
> overhaul or back and forth glancing and editting.
> Then it would be nice to have a quick way of editting that file in
> TextMate and saving it directly back to the server. Either because  
> it is
> easier to put it back directly, or so that I can test some settings  
> and
> go back to editting and saving quickly.

If it's a local server enable SMB or Dav and share /. Then you can  
just mount it's filesystem.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net