is it possible to edit files directly on FTP?

[Brian Fahrlander]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> vim/gvim has had this functionality for some time. It may be a
> 'plugin' but it can do it. Across also a short shell script to
> download, edit file, upload if the file has changed would not be
> hugely complicated.

    I don't know if FTP works with it, since I've not tried, but Gnome's 
"Connect to Server" application does this with ssh, and it's pretty 
smooth. (Has anyone mentioned that, yet?)


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