rich wrote:
Not so light, but I'm totally hooked on Homesite because of the built
in remote file saving/ftp. Do any of the above do something like that
as well?
I use XEmacs. I can use efs (Extended File System?). In any event it
effectively uses ftp to edit files directly. Interestingly enough it can
also do things like filename completion, etc - even on a file on a
system say in Korea! You can simply tell it to open a file specified as
/<username>@<koreanhost>:/path_to_the_file then type tab. At that point
XEmacs opens an ftp connection to <koreanhost> and prompts you for
<username>'s password. Once that's established (a one time per session
thing) it reads the / (root) directory for matches to
"path_to_the_file". Let's say that the only thing that matches is a
directory named "path_to_the_file_I_want_to_edit". If that's the case
XEmacs will fill in the path to
/<username>@<koreanhost>:/path_to_the_file_I_want_to_edit/ and you can
continue specify the rest of the path/filename. Thereafter you just edit
the file as normal and then save it. When you save it XEmacs ftp's the
new version of the file and replaces it on <koreanhost>. Nothing could
be simpler! You can also view remote directories, delete files, change
mod bits, whatever - whatever <username> on <koreanhost> is allowed to
do that is.
I use this to edit files on my home system
(/an****@defaria.com:/DocumentRoot/index.php for example) from work or
anywhere else.
Additionally, for those servers that don't offer ftp access but say
allow ssh access you can use tramp. Tramp is like efs but uses ssh
(and/or other protocols like rsh) to do effectively the same thing. The
only real difference is in the path name itself, which is of the form
/[<username>@<hostname>]/path/to/file/myscript.php.
Additionally if you want to say insert a file from an ftp server in
England you would issue the command for insert a file then use a
pathname like /my****@englishhost.com.uk:/path/to/included/file or it's
tramp equivalent. Viola! File inserted. Done!
A simple concept yet very powerful.
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