Remote Projects
February 14th, 2008
The latest updates of e has added support for remote projects. This means that you can open an ftp site directly in the project pane and use it as if it was a local project.
In earlier versions of e, this could also be approximated with various shell plug-ins, but having it as an integrated part of e removes the reliance on external tools and gives a much nicer user experience. Implementing this features was also an opportunity to re-architect and improve a part of e that had gone a bit stale while the rest of the editor had evolved. The new underlying project framework is very flexible and extensible, and will allow for a lot of new capabilities in the near future.
To open a remote project just select ‘File/Open Remote Folder’ on the menu, create a new profile and press ‘Open’. The remote site will be opened in the project pane, and you can interact with it as if it was a local project.
You can also open remote files and projects directly from the command line. You just have to give it the path i url format:
e.exe ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/dir/file.txt
e.exe ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/dir/ (remember trailing slash for projects)
e.exe ftp://username:password@ftp.mydomain.com/dir/ (with login)
The remote projects feature is still very new and currently only supports the ftp, but support for protocols like sftp and webdav will be available soon.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
it really kicks the lamas … thank you
February 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Awesome … have been waiting for this feature sin day one of trying E. Must say, this editor is getting more and more delicious…
February 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Can’t wait for SFTP support !
Keep up the good work.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:49 am
This is nice. Waiting for sftp support.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Wow, while actually testing around with the 30-day-demo, the hopefully supported sftp/ssh support is my most wanted feature!
February 19th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Waiting for SCP support
February 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Waiting for sftp too.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hi,
great !
I have a little suggestion : why don’t allow to use the wheel of the mouse for scrolling tabs like Firefox ? If our cursor is in the file, the scrolling is on the file (vertical) and if our cursor is on tabs, the scrolling is for scrolling all the tabs (horizontal). It’s more fast than click on the arrow if we have many tabs. Yes, we can use ctrl+1-9 and also ctrl+tab (and ctrl+shift+tab for browse from right to left) but…
February 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Other suggestion : allow to open two or more windows to can work on more than one project at the same time (useful for example, to use a project for inspiration and a project for the new work).
February 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
A third suggestion ^^ : allow to use an documentation for auto-completion. My dream is to can use e for programming and having the auto-completion of the (PHP) Symfony Framework (http://www.symfony-project.org) but also for Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com), etc. etc. etc.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Thank you for this, it is great!
February 29th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
And a fourty suggestion :p : a multiple copy/paste, with keywords shorcuts but also via a graphical user interface (GUI) in a little window, to directly view the content of the clipboard with multiples entries.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
This is a great feature, sftp support would be lovely. One feature I love about e which I hope won’t be lost as the project viewer becomes more powerful is that it integrates so well with Windows Explorer. All my right click actions and custom icons work which means that I can use Tortoise SVN from within the project viewer. Awesome stuff!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:08 am
Hi, awesome - finally a TextMate for us that have to use windows for work.
I would buy this if it had SCP (or even better, SSH) support that detected whether a file has been changed before saving it (and warning).
Keep up the good work!
/Håkan
April 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
E is QUICK. I LOVE IT. RADRAILS is way too slow. Waiting for SFTP though for this function.