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Re: opening and saving files remotely



on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:00:10AM -0600, Rory O'Connor (midget@elaris.com) wrote:
> 
> Homesite has a nifty feature called FTP/RDS that allows me to open, edit 
> 
> and save files on remote servers as if they were local.  I'm wondering 
> if linux would have a similar feature where I could open and edit files, 
> 
> say, in gnotepad (or other GTK text editor) and save them remotely in 
> the same fashion?

Depends.

vim 6 has edit-over-ftp.  Ditto emacs/xemacs.  It's not an uncommon
feature these days.

Samba gives the features your describing, and not just for editors..

What's the underlying protocol for Homesite's feature?  I'd guess ftp
from the name.

Peace.

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