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Yet another SFTP plugin

#1

I recently discovered Sublime Text 2 and have been loving it!
The only thing missing for me was editing over sftp.

Didn’t really like the other sftp/remote editing plugins, mainly because of the inability to browse files, so I made my own plugin.

  • Works for now over sftp/ssh2, using psftp (part of the putty family)

  • Uses the power of the quick panel completions to browse files

  • Automatically hooks into file saves and uploads after saving

  • Optionally, continues to spider the file tree populating the quick panel list

github.com/SublimeText/Mote

Let me know what you guys/gals think.

Edit: moved repo to SublimeText github org

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#2

Sounds great! any chance that this also works on Mac?

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#3

On OS X you can use MacFUSE and MacFusion to mount directories as local volumes via sftp, so you can just treat it as a file system and nothing extra is needed.

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#4

NetDrive. Free for personal use.

Is very useful when you have to do only some quick fixes. I’m also doing this some times. But developing directly on ftp is kind of silly (to use a soft word).

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#5

Mainly because I’m still using Windows and do my development on a remote linux box. This plugin allows me to edit over the wire onto a remote machine.

I still use git to do versioning on top of editing the remote files. My main workflow is for web development is:
Open PuTTY to ‘watch tail logs’
Open remote file(s)
Edit file(s)
Save/Upload file(s)
Open dev server in browser / watch logs -> debug
Repeat Edit -> Debug until satisfied
Git commit

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#6

Really impressive plugin. It would be perfect if it was possible to display the file list also as a tree in a sidebar panel… do you think it would be possible?

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