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I noticed in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxDJof7xxQ - that Ian uses a text editor that enables maintaining a FTP connection. Whenever he saves the text-file (which is a HTML file in his case), that update gets sent to the server automatically. I would love to be able to do that.
As for now I use Notepad++ in which I predominately create HTML and JavaScript text files. My machine is Windows 7. I have a web-hosting account (ASP.net) for my domains, which also includes a FTP account, of course.
I am looking for a lightweight text-editor that enables the functionality which can be seen in the above video - I want to be able to open a text-file (remotely via FTP), edit it, and then just hit CTRL+S to send the updated version to the remote server via FTP.
The Zeus Lite editor does seamless FTP editing.
Doesn't Notepad++ have a plug-in for this? I think I noticed that a while back...
Not quite what you're looking for, the FileZilla FTP client will detect that the file being edited has been modified and prompts you to upload it (maybe that can be made automatic also).
Vim can do this, using the ftp plugin.
http://www.vim.org/
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075
Notepad++ is the editor you are looking for. I use it all the time to edit files on LAMP servers with FTP
under plugins open nppftp and click show, and the command interface for the ftp engine will appear.
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I used to use Sublime text and paid for a donation plugin that perfectly uploaded when i saved a file, to my remote FTP.
Now, i have switched to Visual Studio Code and having trouble getting that same functionality. I currently am trying two FTP extensions - ftp-sync and ftp-simple. Neither of these seem to auto-upload to my FTP without me having to click through extra steps, like to specify which remote FTP of the few I have in config, and / or remote folder.
I was looking for any advice on
If i am doing it incorrectly - maybe something to do with workspace in VSC - is there a way to inform VSC which local folder goes with which remote server / folder?
Which FTP extension can do this.To make sure i am clear, what I need is when i save a file in VSC, it instantly pushes it to the remote FTP in the same folder, without needing anything from me besides the save.
thanks!
From my experience, SFTP is so far very easy to setup and use. It loads your remote directories in VS Code and lets you edit and save them directly on the remote server.
Check it out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liximomo.sftp
I finally found a plugin that does this, and this is it: ftp-kr at VSC Marketplace
It will automatically upload to server without any extra clicks or prompts on save and more in Visual Studio Code. You do have to configure it to do so, but it is working for me.
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I am trying to make an email layout cross compatible with all clients, but is getting slowed down because I have to use Outlook everytime I make changes. Actually it seems like the only method is to use litmus, so what happens is whenever I make changes to my code, I send a test email to my litmus, then only from there I can check the cross compatibility.
Is there a software/tool I can use to see the layout real time as how I code?
Thanks!
If you have Litmus, use Litmus Builder! You can code in one half of the screen and get updated previews of any client in the right every time you save. Worth the $$$ if you work on email regularly.
Another way is to use Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook uses a similar (if not same) rendering engine as Microsoft Word.
If you have a compiled HTML file of the email and have Microsoft Word installed on your computer, you can right-click the HTML file and Open With -> Microsoft Word to open the email file in Word. What you see should be very similar to Outlook.
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We have a legacy system that uses the Windows FTP client with some FTP script files to manipulate files over FTP. We've found the Windows FTP client to be fairly unreliable though in regards to error handling - for example if it can't connect to the remote site it doesn't even return an error code from the commandline. And sometimes it just seems to hang altogether if the connection to the FTP server goes down midway through a file transfer.
So we're looking for an alternative. Is there a script-able commandline FTP client for Windows that will handle the existing FTP script files (written for the Windows FTP client) out of the box, but with improved error handling?
I'm not sure what your activities are surrounding your FTP usage, but if it's a build web app local and deploy to server type activities, you could try CruiseControl: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
This might be a good replacement for FTP scripts if you're concerned about error handling.
Look up "MOVEit Freely". It's primary role is a drop-in replacement for ftp.exe to handle FTP/S, but it may also have the better behavior you're looking for.
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Most of the windows SFTP clients (like FileZilla) seem to be GUI-based. I need something I can call from batch files.
pscp and psftp are very customizable(options) and light weight. Open source to boot.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
WinSCP has the command line functionality:
c:\>winscp.exe /console /script=example.txt
where scripting is done in example.txt.
See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation
Refer to http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation_advanced for details on how to use a scripting language such as Windows command interpreter/php/perl.
FileZilla does have a command line but it is limited to only opening the GUI with a pre-defined server that is in the Site Manager.
Cygwin + sftp/scp natrually
WinSCP can be called from batch file:
"C:\Program Files\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" /console
Example commands:
option batch on
option confirm off
option transfer binary
open sftp://username#hostname:port -hostkey="ssh-rsa "
www.bitvise.com - sftpc is a good command line client also.
LFTP is great, however it is Linux only. You can find the Windows port here. Never tried though.
Achtunq, it uses Cygwin, but everything is included in the bundle.
bitvise tunnelier works really well
This little application does the job for me. I could not find another CLI based client that would access my IIS based TLS/SSL secured ftp site:
http://netwinsite.com/surgeftp/sslftp.htm
Filezilla is great and it can support command line arguments.
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Within our company we use a proprietary template engine, which stores its templates in a MySQL database. We recently developed a WebDAV interface for this, which allows us to use standard tools to edit them, instead of a nasty <textarea>.
The standard operating-system webdav clients aren't great though, so for OS/X we went with Coda, which has amazing WebDAV support and saves us a ton of time.
Some of our devs are on Windows though, is anyone aware of a good editor that comes with built-in WebDAV support?
I ended up using Netdrive. Even though it has it's own share of problems (bad, bad multi-user support) the client behaves a lot smoother than Windows' and does a lot of built-in caching.
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You can mount the WebDAV URI as a local drive and then access it using a standard editor, like notepad.exe or slightly fancier ones such as Notepad++.
The oXygen XML editor can use WebDAV. It might be worth checking if one can edit non XML files with it as well.
You can use a good FTP client (such as CrossFTP that handles SFTP, WebDav, and Amazon S3 protocols) to edit your remote files with your favorite editor.
There are Bluefish, gedit, Kate etc. They are primarily built for Linux but Windows ports are available in the links I have posted. They are all full blown editors too as you would hardly miss a feature. For questions like this the best source to have a primary lookup is wikipedia.
Microsoft Expression Web 4 is actually a good fit for this. As of December 2012 it is now free (as in beer) but unsupported (as in development has ceased).
I use it to edit HTML and CSS files and publish to my host via WebDAV. It does everything you would expect, syntax-highlighting, auto-complete, syncing changes and probably much more.
I am not terribly bothered by the fact that it is abandonware, it definitely is the best fit for my needs right now. More info on Wikipedia