[quote=“ricochet1k”]
I get that downloading the list of files is slow (FTP is slow as a general rule) but it wouldn’t have to download all the files. It could just create blank ones to match the structure of the remote machine.[/quote]
No, it doesn’t need to download all files, but it needs to list every remote folder to find all of the files to replicate as blank files. That process of listing folders tends to be pretty slow for lots of servers.
[quote=“ricochet1k”]
[quote=“wbond”]
For users that want to work on remote files as if they were local, with the full functionality of Sublime, you should try out expandrive.com. Some users find it fast enough, other find it too laggy.[/quote]
ExpanDrive doesn’t work on Linux. Filezilla has the ability to edit remote files using temporaries too. SFTP is better anyway. Seeing all the files listed in the sidebar is mostly just a convenience, albeit a very nice one.[/quote]
It is actually way simpler, and free, on Linux using sshfs. Here is some example documentation: turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mou … macfusion/.
Unfortunately there is no way to tell when the quick panel is open, and the command that closes the SFTP panel also ends up closing the quick panel. That said, the output panel does not seem to hide after downloading a file. For most (if not all) server workflow operations I skip hiding the SFTP output panel so that the quick panel is not closed inadvertently. Instead, I am just not re-opening the quick panel since I make the assumption that if you want to download a file, it is to edit it.