At 8:12 PM -0400 2006/10/24, Carole Mah wrote:
The SFTP browser, in my experience, doesn't time out unless the
server tells it to. I've opened a connection to a server, worked for
a bit, walked away for hours, come back, and the connection is still
alive. So if BBEdit is forced to reconnect every five minutes, then
anything else that connects to your server probably is too -- it
might just be that you're noticing with BBEdit, while perhaps
Interarchy does it silently.
Actually, it isn't just the server -- after I ran the 'secret' timeout
increase command that I found documented in the "Secret Preferences"
help file, it was no longer forcing me to reconnect so frequently any
more.
Carole,
This is BBEdit avoiding server-side timeouts by generating
activity. Apparently BBEdit doesn't proactively close the connection
due to a timeout BBEdit keeps track of, per previous poster.
And you probably don't want it to. Even if you turn on the secret
preference to show temp files in the Open Recent menu, it's going
to...well, it's going to do exactly that, open the temp files. When
you open a file in BBEdit from Interarchy, it creates a temporary
version of that file on your local drive, and so the item in the Open
Recent menu would point to the temp file on your hard drive, not the
original on your remote server.
Why isn't it able to point to the original on the remote server? I
just don't understand that. All I want is for it to point to that (not
to the temp file on my hard drive).
Because BBEdit edits files. To edit a file on a remote
server, it has to download the file, edit the local copy, and upload
the revised file. Aliases point to files, like the local copy. Mac OS
X aliases don't know anything about (S)FTP, so you can't have an
alias (in a BBEdit menu or anywhere else) to a remote file. BBEdit's
behind-the-scenes magic can hide most of this complexity for you, but
its Interarchy integration is excellent but not quite as seamless.
Note: I can't find the temporary recent items default either
-- perhaps I misremembered, or perhaps there's some confusion between
8.5 & 8.5.1 versions of the docs? Bare Bones may know, but I don't
have an explanation.
Chris
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