Good morning,
On 30/08/14 at 2:46 PM -0700, Andrew B
<[email protected]> wrote:
* Is it possible to invoke BBEdit to edit a file using a command on a
remote Linux machine? The bbedit tool seems to do exactly this on the
local OSX machine, but I'm wondering if anyone has magic that could
accomplish the same result remotely.
I'm not aware of anything to do this. There have been past
attempts (even by me) but nothing successful. The best I came up
with was automating the process of:
- scp localfile osxhost:localfile
- ssh osxhost bbedit -wait --resume localfile
- scp osxhost:localfile localfile
It was too fragile though; it was quite a while ago and I don't
recall the problems.
I'd love to hear someone else saying they have a solution for
this one. Would be great if I could set EDITOR on remote
machines to point back to bbedit.
* Can the BBEdit shell workspace be directed to any SSH connection?
The worksheet is not a TTY, so you cannot have an ssh *session*.
You can send commands to remote servers via ssh from a worksheet
(assumes ssh key login). I use this method quite a lot to (eg)
set permissions for files on remote server, or restart a running
process on remote server, etc. I also use worksheet to copy
files to remote server using rsync; especially handy for
mirroring sites.
* I am assuming that between the open via ftp/sftp, and the mounting of
remote file systems, BBEdit should be able to access and edit the
remote files. Are there any gotchas here I should be aware of?
There may be some gotchas, but none I think you need to be aware
of. BBEdit has quite good handling of files on remote volumes. I
sometimes use the built-in s/ftp tools; I used to use external
s/ftp (Interarchy) almost exclusively; I now use mounted remote
volumes with ExpanDrive.
[The new version of ExpanDrive has introduced some strange race
conditions with its new local file cache; I've not found the
reproducible steps yet. Anyone else seeing problems with new
ExpanDrive 'modifying files since last save'?]
As someone new to BBEdit, you will bring a fresh perspective to
editing files on remote servers. I look forward to hearing what
solution(s) you find work best for you.
Charlie
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