Would sshfs (in macports) be an option? I used this once in 2009 to do 
something similar.

Greg Shenaut

On Aug 30, 2014, at 15:50 , Charlie Garrison <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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