An HTML-kit - like editor for Linux [SOLVED]

Question

In my workplace we are using Windows XP and there our editor of choice is HTML-kit. I like Gedit and Bluefish a lot in Linux but both are missing the feature I like the most in HTML-kit: the live FTP connection that makes all the files visible directly from FTP and then when I am editing them, they got directly uploaded to the FTP server. All without the need to manually ALT-TAB into an FTP client, find the proper file and upload it.
Is there an editor that might do to the same thing in Linux?
Last edited by sven (2007-06-02 07:57:36)

Answer 1

I know this isn't exactly what you want but I use Bluefish this way:
I have a webserver where I upload my html files to and I do all the editing and have all source files on my laptop.
To make things easier and avoid having to do the alt-tab thing you talked about I have created a small script that I run from within Bluefish to do the upload for me. The script is very simple... something like this:
#!/bin/bash
lftp -u username,password 192.168.0.2 <<EOF
cd /home/httpd/html/
put $1
quit 0
EOF
In Bluefish under preferences->external programs you can then call this script by adding it to "utilities and filters" like this:
"/home/user/ftp_upload.sh %s"
The last step would be to create a short-cut key so that you only have to press eg Ctrl+g, or what ever you want, to save and upload the file you are currently working on.
This method doesn't let you browse the remote ftp directory and edit files directly, but I find it to be a very smooth way to quickly edit and upload your local files to an ftp server.