At 12:00 PM -0700 9/21/06, Bob Williams sent email regarding Re: 8.5 and ftp:
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that BBEdit has a built-in FTP client. It's ideal for folks who only rarely deal with a server,
I very often edit files right on my server and it's nice that opening a file on my server is (or rather was) almost transparent to the user -- almost like opening the file locally. This is what made the ftp feature so nice.
and it's great for those times when I'm in BBEdit and just want to open one or two remote files real quick to check something out. However, I, personally, would rather the good folks at Bare Bones spend their limited time improving the program's core features, like code folding and spell-checking, as well as adding new features like auto-complete, than spend it improving a purely ancillary feature like FTP.
I don't consider opening and saving files to be 'ancillary'. And I don't think that switching to another application to aid in the opening of files is particularly handy. As to whether adding 'Duplicate' or 'New File' functions to the existing ftp functions would cause code folding or spell checking to suffer, I doubt that adding these things would take more than an hour or two.
Oh, BTW: spell checking -- a core feature?!? I guess it's all relative -- depends on what one uses a lot. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
