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Transmit: Editing on a remote server
Merlin Mann | Mar 2 2006
For a while now, Transmit -- my hands-down choice for all things FTP -- has had a feature that I adore, which is the ability to edit text files from a remote server directly in the local Mac editor of my choice (in my case, that's the very swell TextMate. This little bit of wizardry makes it really easy to quickly fix code, tweak style sheets, or correct spelling without that nightmarish 90s ritual of the re-re-re-re-reupload (which is particularly painful when you're working on a live application). Well, heck. I just figured out that the latest version of Transmit takes this to a another (yes! yet! another!) level by letting you edit images on a remote server. I just opened a .png in Photoshop and saw the saved results immediately appear on the live box. Disco. While I don't completely understand the Elfen Magic™ with local temp files that makes this appear so seamless, I can tell you it's pretty freakin' ace in practice. Plus, kids, do remember -- because I know some of you still don't know about or do this -- once you've set up your Transmit bookmarks to use "DockSend," you can upload a file to your remote directory just by dropping it on the dock's Transmit icon (or opening it via Quicksilver, etc.). I can't even imagine how many hours this would have saved me in 1996. This is a truly great time to be alive. 42 Comments
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 well, I would not say...Submitted by maeghith (not verified) on March 11, 2006 - 1:36pm.
well, I would not say that to perform a: :e ftp://user:passs@ftp.server.com/path/to/file.html is "painfully editing files in Vim", if you are confortable with Vim editing OTOH, as some others have said, on linux KDE and GNOME support this kind of thing built into their respective file browsers (even in a more transparent way that some Mac user commented before ---no need to do the "connect to a server" ritual, just type the url). And indeed one can edit a 10 layer xcf file with The GIMP on linux (no native photoshop on linux man ---but you can try crossover office to make it work) and they will be updated on the server right when you click on the save menu/button (but as far as I know you won't be able to check this with any web browser due to a lack of support for xcf and psd files on firefox, explorer and/or opera you know :p ) On the other hand, for those of you used to edit things live on the server but afraid of the consequences in case of accidental failure, there are some documentation out there about how to run a versioning system (like subversion, p4, cvs, bit keeper, git, darcs, source safe, etc...) to do web development so you can easily rollback any changes without much effort and being 100% sure that the rollback will work exactly the same as before the editing. » POSTED IN:
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