On Mon, May 14, 2007 12:08 pm, Phill Coxon wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:36 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: >> Occasionally being on this list really pays off :-) >> >> I had never heard of fish (except a vague recollection from the deep >> past) >> >> It looks very very useful. >> >> Thank you. >> Zane > > It's incredibly useful when dealing with remote computers. > > Right now I'm working on some php order pages on a server in the USA. > > I'm looking at the remote directory server in Konqueror which has been > split to show a local working directory in the left window. > > So I can easy drag & drop files between the local & remote server to > work on them, create backups etc. > > To edit the remote php files I simply right click on the file on the > remote server and it is loaded into kate on my computer. Every time I > press CTRL-S to save it's saved directly back to the remote server. > > That means I can make changes and test the result in a browser in 2-3 > seconds. No messing around with a separate FTP program.
You can get the same effect with ssh and vi (remotely editing I mean, not the drag and drop stuff) ;-) -- Nick Rout
