is it possible to edit files directly on FTP?

[Derek Broughton]

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> For example using Gnome I can create a folder on the Desktop that
> shows me the files in my webserver. I double-click a file and it
> opens in Gedit, which is great, but it won't let me save that file
> back to the FTP folder after making changes. Is there anyway to
> achieve this, it would be so convenient!

Switch to KDE?  I don't know if it's possible with Gnome & VFS, but in KDE
you use kio slaves, and "kate ftp://host/file" works fine (or smb:, and
many other protocols).
-- 
derek