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 !