Missing (K)IO-Slaves
Like I’ve written here, Finder’s lack of FTP-uploading capability bothers me. KDE’s FTP-KIO-Slave enables me to do the following:
- Browse to the appropriate directory on my FTP-server using Konqueror.
- Open the desired file with Kate, KDE’s Advanced Text Editor.
- Edit the file and save it back to the FTP-server. Directly. No local copy and manual FTP-uploading required.
This is a very handy feature and I’m somewhat used to it. Is there any feasible way of doing so using OS X? Will Tiger’s Finder support such functionality or at least FTP-uploading? Guess I’ll have to wait and see. Anyhow, I’m open to suggestions and no, I don’t have SSH access to my FTP-site.
April 19th, 2005 at 0:12
Are comments to my own posts weird? Maybe, but anyhow: Cyberduck supports external editors. I got myself TextWrangler which has nice syntax highlighting and even built-in FTP support.
April 19th, 2005 at 0:32
BBEdit and TextWrangler are both text editors that allow you to FTP files. BBEdit ain’t free, but TextWrangler is. BBEdit has a really nice file browser built-in. Hopefully one of these will fit your needs.
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml
April 21st, 2005 at 14:13
For myself I wouldn’t touch either BBEdit or Textwrangler with a bargepole – for the reasons given here:
http://rixstep.com/4/2/bbe,00.html
They’re not native OS X stuff and are horribly, but horribly, bloated.
For FTP, I’ve used RBrowser (costs) and RBrowser Lite (free) and also Panic’s Transmit (costs). All were OK for my purposes. (I’m told Fugu is good, too, and free – but I think it only does SFTP.)
Or this may be of interest:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/04/ftp.html