[ale] OT - Open via FTP, my replacement for UltraEdit

[Michael Hirsch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Nathan
> J. Underwood


> A lot of what I do involves making simple updates / changes to client
> websites (change  a price, change a picture, etc.), and the ability in
> UltraEdit to just open a file remotely [via FTP] and then save it
> remotely [via FTP] was very nice.  I had been looking for something in
> Linux that replicated that ability.  Specifically, what I was looking
> for was something that had an 'open from ftp' or 'save to ftp' button.
> What I found, though, was even better.  With any of the various text
> editors available in Linux, I can just choose 'Open', and then open an
> FTP location.  The one that I've found that seems to best suit my
needs
> is KDevelop.  Anyway, just thought I'd stick that out there in case
> someone else was having the same problem.

That is one of my favorite features.  Working in a setting with dozens
of systems I might need to work on, it is pretty cool to be able to open
a file on any machine.  Or just copy files around via my file browser.
The Windows people have to find a sftp client, or an ftp client, and I
can just use konqueror for everything.  It gives then UI envy.  :-)  I
think that GNOME would work similarly to KDE.