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jEdit is a Free Editor with SFTP support

Due to the important policy change of FTP to SFTP at TextDrive, I have not been able to edit in place using HTML-Kit as it only supports FTP

Atlast, I have found jEdit - Programmer’s Text Editor which satisfies my need of editing in place - albeit slow…

[Update on Sep 10 2005 in response to a comment : The FTP plugin plugs into jEdit’s virtual filesystem to allow transparent access to FTP servers…In addition, when running on Java 2 version 1.4, the FTP plugin can edit and browse files stored on SFTP servers…]

textpattern.com Support Forum / Text editors contains many options…

php-editors.com - php Editor Review - very useful !

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3 Responses to “jEdit is a Free Editor with SFTP support”

  1. vijay Says:
    September 10th, 2005 at 4:10 am

    hi,
    i’m tring to just jedit and i cant figure out how it supports sftp as you blog indicates. can you help please
    thanks
    vijay

  2. Kishore Says:
    September 10th, 2005 at 9:46 am

    The FTP plugin plugs into jEdit’s virtual filesystem to allow transparent access to FTP servers…In addition, when running on Java 2 version 1.4, the FTP plugin can edit and browse files stored on SFTP servers…

  3. boodebr.org » Blog Archive » WinSCP and alternatives for Linux Says:
    March 6th, 2006 at 8:12 am

    […] WinSCP. The downside is you are locked-in to KDE apps. jEdit has a plugin (first noticed @ this blog) that makes SFTP connections look just like […]

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