I'm new. Is there a way to open, edit, and save to an FTP location without having a location file? Using a keystroke for each operation (open, save)?
I only see the 'FTP synchronize' plug-in, and apparently it cannot be controlled by keystrokes.
(possibly this would be most elegant handled by the operating system, so that ctrl-O and ctrl-S would just do it -- but I can't figure out how to get MS Vista to do that)
OS: Vista Home Prem.
(ps, I like what I see so far about Notepad++!)
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A simple solution is to support a "save to FTP" operation. So for example, you could set F5 to be "Save to FTP". If you opened the file either locally or from FTP Synchronize, then F5 could simply write the current file to whatever the current FTP directory is. If the file already exists, a prompt should be provided to ask if you REALLY want to overwrite the existing file.
I have PSPad setup this way and it works well. I don't know how easy it is to setup Notepad++ to do this, as I have not used it in a couple years and have just stopped by to see the state of affairs and give it another test drive.
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This is not possible, with FTp you first have to download the entire file. However, there exist tools that make it look like the FTP site is a harddrive, but idk the name nor how you get it.
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search for a Novell program called 'netdrive', it will allow you to mount the ftp site as a drive in windows explorer. Once the ftp site is mounted as a drive you can do what you describe above
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correction - Will let you get the feeling you edit your files remotely, in reality this is not possible. It just won't show you that you first download the file, saves it, let's you edit it, save it again and then send it to the server again.
*Technically no local file needs to be made, then you just will have to save the file to ram. I don't think any program does this though. It is hard and complicated to do this (your OS actually being in your path here) and drive space is usually plenty enough to handle the problem.
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I'm new. Is there a way to open, edit, and save to an FTP location without having a location file? Using a keystroke for each operation (open, save)?
I only see the 'FTP synchronize' plug-in, and apparently it cannot be controlled by keystrokes.
(possibly this would be most elegant handled by the operating system, so that ctrl-O and ctrl-S would just do it -- but I can't figure out how to get MS Vista to do that)
OS: Vista Home Prem.
(ps, I like what I see so far about Notepad++!)
A simple solution is to support a "save to FTP" operation. So for example, you could set F5 to be "Save to FTP". If you opened the file either locally or from FTP Synchronize, then F5 could simply write the current file to whatever the current FTP directory is. If the file already exists, a prompt should be provided to ask if you REALLY want to overwrite the existing file.
I have PSPad setup this way and it works well. I don't know how easy it is to setup Notepad++ to do this, as I have not used it in a couple years and have just stopped by to see the state of affairs and give it another test drive.
(Sorry, I meant 'local file', not 'location file')
This is not possible, with FTp you first have to download the entire file. However, there exist tools that make it look like the FTP site is a harddrive, but idk the name nor how you get it.
search for a Novell program called 'netdrive', it will allow you to mount the ftp site as a drive in windows explorer. Once the ftp site is mounted as a drive you can do what you describe above
also - filezilla will allow you to edit files remotely
correction - Will let you get the feeling you edit your files remotely, in reality this is not possible. It just won't show you that you first download the file, saves it, let's you edit it, save it again and then send it to the server again.
*Technically no local file needs to be made, then you just will have to save the file to ram. I don't think any program does this though. It is hard and complicated to do this (your OS actually being in your path here) and drive space is usually plenty enough to handle the problem.