Edit files directly on server

I have been working with dreamweaver for years now, and I feel that either i'm missing something, or Adobe is missing a very atrractive feature. I think I'll illustrate this through an example.
With Microsift Visual Web Developer, a program which I extremely dislike has an add a site feature. When you do this, you enter all of the FTP information and so on, from here, when you create/open a web document it opens it directly from the server (not from a folder where you have a complete copy of the site on your computer). When I click save (ctrl+S) it saves it directly to the server via FTP. Can I accomplish this in Dreamweaver? I work with PHP files a lot, along with WordPress, and I'd rather make minor CSS changes "on the fly" hit the hotkeys for save, and see the changes without having to select "put" or sync the site.
Thanks for your support
Zach

Murray, here's my dilemma:
I do most of my work on a computer that is locally networked to the server that hosts the files so I do not need FTP or any other out of network access to the files when using this computer.
Sometimes I do need to access the files from my laptop, remotely via FTP.
If I setup the locally networked computer so the server folder is my Dreamweaver local folder and I do not set up a remote server or remote folder, it works and I’m able to search/replace but then when I preview in a browser, it previews using the local path (e.g.; \\server\website\root\) instead of the sites URL so dynamic content does not show. I would like for Dreamweaver to use the URL instead of the path. The only way I can get it to do that is by setting up a remote server and selecting ‘Local/Network’ under the ‘Connect Using:’ settings. Then I specify the same folder as I did for the local site. I guess it’s working but I have gotten write errors before.
If I use my laptop to access remotely, I would like the ability to use the search/replace function but I guess the only way to do that is to have a local site on the laptop?
So please tell me exactly how does RDS differ from FTP?
What do I put in each of the input boxes? The tiles differ from the FTP boxes.

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