Due to the important policy change of FTP to SFTP at TextDrive, I have not been able to edit in place using HTML-Kit as it only supports FTP
Atlast, I have found jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor which satisfies my need of editing in place – albeit slow…
[Update on Sep 10 2005 in response to a comment : The FTP plugin plugs into jEdit’s virtual filesystem to allow transparent access to FTP servers…In addition, when running on Java 2 version 1.4, the FTP plugin can edit and browse files stored on SFTP servers…]
textpattern.com Support Forum / Text editors contains many options…
php-editors.com – php Editor Review – very useful !
3 replies on “jEdit is a Free Editor with SFTP support”
hi,
i’m tring to just jedit and i cant figure out how it supports sftp as you blog indicates. can you help please
thanks
vijay
The FTP plugin plugs into jEdit’s virtual filesystem to allow transparent access to FTP servers…In addition, when running on Java 2 version 1.4, the FTP plugin can edit and browse files stored on SFTP servers…
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