is it possible to edit files directly on FTP?

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On 3 Oct 2007, at 04:32, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> 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?)
>


This is what I am using and trying to do, using Gnome connect to...  
this is gnome vfs I think, but it doesn't seem to let me save the  
changes :( Switching to KDE is the most attractive proposition so  
far, but still not attractive.

I'm handy with Ruby but I don't really know where to begin writing a  
script so that when I double click a file in Nautilus it downloads  
it, opens in Gedit, and if the file gets changed it is uploaded.