Folks, Two parts --
1. Only tangentially perl related (in that, I want to edit perl scripts) residing on a remote machine connected via ssh. Is there a way to actually mount an ssh connected machine's hd on my ibook so I can open the scripts on the remote machine via my local editor of choice? Editing using pico or vi over ssh is out of the question for a Unix newbie like me (btw, the terminal has this annoying habit of wrapping long lines... like actually hard wrapping... thereby screwing up the code if one doesn't watch out). I can easily browse and copy remote files using the most excellent freeware Fugu (fantastic icon) available at http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ but that is also a pain. I have to download the file, edit it, then I have to upload. Would be cool to simply mount the remote fs and work happily. If it can't be done, knowing that would also be great because then I would quit wasting my time trying to make it happen. 2. I have a major peeve with the two leading heavyweight web development apps... Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 6 and Adobe's Golive 6. Both allow working with all manner of server side scripting files but not Perl. What's with that? I mean, they even support scripting C# and .Net. But when it comes to Perl, no code/syntax highlighting, error checking, nothing. Perl scripts are treated like plain dumb text. The reason I need something like Dreamweaver or Golive is because I don't want to use my finite braincells remembering syntax for silly html for making tables, frames, hex colors, and other such stupidities. Doing that nonsense visually makes developing web apps tolerable. Even more so when you have to go back and edit some convoluted frames and/or tables code. Would have been great if I could do the visual part as well as the perl part. Is their a general impression (at least in the commercial world) that perl is moribund? Do they think there are no perl programmers on the Mac (they only need come to this list)? I called Adobe and griped, but that's it. Also posted some questions on Macromedia's forums... no bite. Is there need for some advocacy here? Thanks in advance for your wise counsel. pk/
