[pmwiki-users] Numbers with / without shell access

[Oliver Betz]

Steve Glover wrote:

[editor accessing files directly via FTP]

>I guess I just don't like using text editors' integral FTP. It's maybe a
>matter of "this was more trouble than it was worth X years ago, and I've
>not gone back and retried it lately".

Several years ago, I had no trouble with UltraEdit and today not with
PSPad, but I don't remember whether they keep permissions.

>I'm more likely to use an FTP client that I can use over SSH and tell
>which editor I like to use for each filetype. But even so, for editing

WinSCP supports SFTP and SCP.

>of remote files, they're still downloaded and uploaded again - and

no doubt - a local test environment allows faster edits.

>there's still the need to reset the permissions on the files once
>they're uploaded.

WinSCP keeps permissions and allows integration of external editors.

But the WinSCP website uses DokuWiki <g>.

Oliver