I think a lot of what's at the heart of our differences of opinion are
differences in editing approaches and environments so let me explain my
workflow a little more.
My development and production servers are LAMP setups, all remote. I
don't develop and test code on my Mac because I need to develop and
test in an environment that is identical to my production environment.
Consequently, all of my development and production code is stored
remotely on a number of servers. I don't store code locally.
The Mac OS X GUI is beautiful and amazing, but when I'm administering
servers or writing code, my time is split pretty evenly between the
terminal and BBEdit with visits to a variety of web browsers to check
my results.
I'm a keyboard fanatic. I use the mouse only when I have to. Generally,
I can blow through applications, windows, files and servers without
having to take my hands off the keyboard. It's easy and efficient.
I'm a command line fanatic for the same reason. I can restart servers,
move files across directories and directories across servers, set
permissions, find files by modification or access date, dump or load
databases, schedule backups and synchronize file systems all with a few
keystrokes.
The Mac GUI is beautiful but it's not nearly as powerful as the command
line.
As a result of this discussion, I have taken a look at Interarchy and
Transmit. They both look very cool but, honestly, I'd prefer to not
have to add more programs to the workflow just to have the same
functionality I had before.
All I'm saying is that opening a file from an SFTP server was, at one
point, simple and efficient in BBEdit but has become less so since the
upgrade and I'm adding my voice to those that are asking to recover
that simplicity and efficiency.
It doesn't seem like it should be that hard: adding shortcut keys to
the FTP interface similar to those in the "Find & Replace" interface so
that choices could be made from the keyboard and making the "Connect"
button the default so that you don't have to use the mouse to initiate
the connection to the server. (Why else would you open an FTP browser
if not to connect to the server?)
As features and shortcomings go, this particular issue isn't really
that big of a deal and is mostly an annoyance but someone mourned its
loss and I simply concurred (and still do).
That said, BBEdit is still the main tool in my box. Give me that and a
bash shell with root access and I'm set.
(Also, I wasn't the one who had trouble with Interarchy, version 4.1 or
otherwise. I believe that was Warren.)
Cheers,
James
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