On 23 October 2012 09:57, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 2012-10-23, Peter Risdon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm converting to KDE from Gnome (classic) and struggling with the > handling > > of remote filesystems. Having googled the problem at length, I have two > > questions: > > > > 1. If I try to use my preferred text editor, gedit, with a file on a > > network drive it caches the remote file and operates on the cached > version. > > The only opportunity to upload it comes when the editor is closed. Is > there > > a way to make the editor operate on the remote file directly? It looks > like > > the only editor that does, and this in a laborious way, is Kate. > > gedit uses a different implementation for virtual file systems than KDE > does > (KDE uses KIO, GTK+ applications use GIO/GVFS). > > You'll find Kate's behavior with most other KDE applications, for gedit > you'll > have to contact the gedit community. >
That explains it - thanks very much. > > > I'd appreciate being cc'd in because I don't subscribe to this list. > > Leaving that for reference for follow up comments > > Cheers, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer > KDE user support, developer mentoring >
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