is it possible with Textmate to work remotely and using the sidebar drawer?
thanks
How do you do the "remote" part of your question? SSHFS? FTP?
If you use FTP (Transmit or Cyberduck) there is at least one way but I think it's extremelly convoluted. I used to want it badly when I started to use TextMate but I soon learned about Subversion and then Git and now, I almost never use an FTP client for development work at all.
Both versioning systems are extremelly well integrated with TextMate and the whole concept of working on a local copy and pushing only valid changes is vastly superior to using an FTP client to download a whole file in a temp folder, opening it with a local editor, saving the temp file, uploading it to the server.
If you use SSHFS or some other ways to mount the remote server you can use it as you were working with local file with the caveat that the whole thing can be maddening slow.
Did you try to edit the files within an SSH session in the terminal? Using Vim like that is actually very fast but it can lead to somewhat unpleasing situations when not done correctly.
I found myself:
Use Transmit 4+
Mount the server as image
drag the entire mount icon in textmate
done.
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I am writing some projects and need frequently compile and test on remote machine.
I am not a vim user thou :(
What I end up now is to use Fetch to browse the project folder and directly open those file using sublime by changing the default editor in Fetch. It somehow works, but one thing not perfect is that I cannot have a “project” structure in my sublime.
I am wondering anyone has a better way to use Terminal (or iTerm whatsoever) with sublime better.
Although this question is over two years old, I will try to answer it. Maybe it will be helpful for you or others that find it.
First, there is sshfs, which you can install via Homebrew or MacPorts. A simple approach would be as following:
mkdir -p ~/mnt/server
sshfs user#server.example.com:/path/on/server ~/mnt/server
Afterwards, you have the complete folder structure from server.example.com locally available at ~/mnt/server. Make sure you set up SSH keys to avoid entering the user password every time. You can find tutorials on that everywhere on the net.
For servers that only offer FTP access (shared hosting and the like), you can use curlftpfs in the same fashion.
To close the connection, simply unmount:
umount ~/mnt
For a GUI-based approach, you have several options. There is Transmit, which features mounting connections as volumes, Forklift which is a Finder replacement that can do the same, ExpanDrive and my favorite Mountain Duck.
If you plan to move lots of data, especially a lot of small files, Mountain Duck performs the best in my testing.
You could use TransmitFTP. Any FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/S3 server connection can be mounted as a volume, e.g., /Volumes/Example. Then you can browse to it when opening a folder in SB and add to your project like any other directory on your filesystem.
I'm used to editing my remote Ubuntu server through SSH and Nano. I've tried using Vim and Emacs but since I don't manage the server frequently enough I never quite get the hang of it and end up forgetting the commands.
I use TextMate daily for programming and was wondering if there's any counter-recommendation against mounting the server's /etc/ folder locally using http://www.macfusionapp.org/ and creating a TextMate project containing /etc/ and editing all configuration files right within?
root would have to be used through SSH to allow editing of the /etc/ files so that makes me a little nervous. Is this a bad approach?
I sometimes use Cyberduck to remotely edit files. You can set up SFTP connections in Cyberduck, so you can connect to any remote machine to which you have SSH access. Cyberduck lets you use TextMate as an external editor, so you can set up the connection and start editing, and Cyberduck will automatically upload your changes.
(This is probably possible in other FTP clients like Transmission, too, but I personally use Cyberduck so I don't know much about other clients.)
There's nothing wrong with using MacFUSE, but I find the Cyberduck solution to be simpler.
Is there any way, any free software capable of automatic file upload? Let's say I edit php code on my local computer with my favorite IDE. I won't change my IDE, it's great. I want something that would detect a file is changed in my project directory and upload it with FTP/SFTP onto remote server. That's it - just that simple.
What I've already tried:
FTPDrive + FileSync Eclipse Plugin - it's quite slow, uploads ALL the files way to often, works buggy under Vista and Windows 7.
WinSCP automatic synchronization - bugs again, refuses to upload files randomly. Would be the best if it worked right.
Eclipse's native SFTP support - it's USELESS! You cannot use PDT projects with this feature. PDT without projects is no better than Notepad++.
Aptana FTP feature. It's worse than manual! Gawd, it sucks!
Running my own PHP/MySQL server under windows. First, it took me ages to set it up, then, it didn't work EXACTLY as my production environment - I hadn't been able to test my code correctly.
How it should work? I change file here, and it's uploaded there. It would be best, if it sit quietly in tray and bother me only if upload error occured.
Ok, if it's not free, maybe there's something cheap at least?
If there's nothing like it, is there something like FTPDrive?
rsync does exactly what you're asking.
Well, almost: it doesn't watch your filesystem and automatically upload files - you'd have to set up a task to run it every minute or whatever. But it does efficiently upload only the changes. If you're on Linux, lsyncd does the watching part and drives rsync to do the efficient upload part.
In the rails world, we tend to use source control and a deployment tool like vlad or capistrano. It's a bit safer and more consistent than FTP. This is a guide on how to use it with svn and php http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2006/08/16/automated-php-deployment-with-capistrano/.
You really should try to get your development server running on your personal machine. It's a much better way and it is worth the initial pain of trying to make it work. There are good tutorials on that out there somewhere.
You can use WebDrive or ExpanDrive, mount a complete remote directory as a local disk drive and directly edit your files on the server. However this highly depends on your connection and how your tools are written. Another approach could be to use one of these tools and with another tool sync all the changes asynchronously.
I like the functionality of dreamweaver where you can add a site and define an ftp and then when you save a file it saves a local copy and also uploads a file via ftp. I am trying to get similar functionality with linux. What I have thought of doing is have inotify monitor a local folder and upload any new or changed files to an ftp site, but I am having a hard time finding information on this. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?
Also, I do not want to install any programs on the ftp server.
Thanks
Dean
You might want to take a look at cron scheduling an rsync job, which will efficiently copy changed files across a network at a chosen interval. rsync will use ssh or rsh (not ftp), so this might not work, but would seem a better way in most cases.
I'd throw together a python script which uses inotify and scp/ftp.
These are all common and should be supported by whatever distro your using. They're also all pretty well documented.
I have a workmate who only uses a Mac. Being unfamiliar with Mac text editors, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend one that will allow SFTP access using ssh keys (not just passwords).
I would recommend checking out MacFUSE and MacFusion which will allow your workmate to mount ssh shares as native partitions, allowing them to use whatever editor they wish.
(source: googlecode.com)
They would probably use the included OpenSSH libraries. So you would just need to add the public/private keys in ~/.ssh/
I personally use rsync to synchronize the working set and the remote directory. Write a small batch file, double click and it synchronizes within a few milliseconds. If you don't need concurrent editing then this will probably be the more sane solution as you don't need to worry about slow filesystem abstraction layers. MacFuse is great in theory, but I have had it lock up finder a bit too often for my liking.
.... not sure, but I'd investigate BBEdit
Cyberduck and TextMate integrate very well - Cyberduck lets you use SFTP, and TextMate is one of the best Mac editors around.
Cyberduck has integration support for many editors.
http://cyberduck.ch/
With it you can browse (edit) FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3.