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

[Shanti Braford]

I was actually surprised this feature wasn't / won't be available for
TextMate.  However, I'm not complaining!  Just getting used to doing
things *the right way*.

Here's my scenario:

1)  I maintain 3+ legacy PHP applications, each with varying
requirements.  (i.e. PHP5 + a bunch of PEAR libraries.  another, PHP4
only.  etc)

Not being a great OS X sysadmin, I have been unable to successfully
mimic all my live PHP deployment environments on my local box.  3
different apache's, three different PHP configs, different PEAR
repos!?!  It's just not my bag.  So I mostly dev on the server when I
have to.

I know this is poor programming style (as RoR has so elegantly shown
me), but it's just the nature of the beast at this point.  I'd be
quite surprised if I were alone in this regard.  (just wait until the
win32 crew comes over to osx in mass exodus... you'll be quite amazed
at the coding standards.  *ahem*)

Has anyone used EditPlus on windows?

I'd consider it's FTP/SFTP integration ideal.

You can just click Ctrl-Shift-S and a menu pops up with a list of
previously managed/saved FTP/SFTP sites.  You can select the current
default site / directory.  Or select a different site.  It's pretty
slick if you've ever used it.  It was definitely EditPlus' killer
feature that made me use it for 4+ solid years of web programming on
windows, and I'll still to this day recommend it to all my
windows-bound friends.  =)

Of course, TextMate gets all nods in the OS X world!

Shanti