At 03:52p -0700 09/22/2006, Warren Michelsen didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 12:24 PM -0700 9/22/06, Bob Williams sent email regarding Re: 8.5 and ftp:
On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:15, Warren Michelsen wrote:
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.
What's so different about having an Interarchy (or whatever) window
always open and a BBEdit FTP browser always open?
Uh, in the latter case, I can do it without leaving BBEdit.
That's why I wrote BBE FTP Open years ago. It lets me operate
Interarchy (or Fetch, for that matter) without leaving BBEdit.
AppleScript rocks!
The only difference I can see is that with an FTP program, you'll
have a bigger set of commands from which to choose. .... And with
Interarchy, at least, you lose nothing in the way of scriptability,
either.
I tried Interarchy 4.1 some years ago and I just didn't 'get' its
paradigm. I lost some files when 'ftpDisk' went berserk and had to
restore from a backup.
The same thing happened to me (server files were case sensitive, OS X
was not, and "data" overwrote "Data"). So I just don't use that
brain-dead feature. (I don't know if it ever got any smarter or not.)
And I don't think that switching to another application to aid in
the opening of files is particularly handy. ...
Those are just two of the small differences. What about being able
to easily see several different folders on a server at once?
Multiple BBEdit ftp browsers.
My script lets you see your favorite files in a single window and
thus can open multiple files at once, even if they're on different
servers. Again, all from within BBEdit, thanks to the scriptability
implemented for the external editor protocol. :-D
So really we already have the best of both worlds. Yipee!
-boo
whose ftp site has been down for ages, sorry! bad boo!
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