Hi all,

I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and I'm looking for a text editor that allows you to edit remote files, something similar to EditPlus on Windows. I'm looking for something that can save multiple FTP/SFTP sessions and has a tree for remote directory and file browsing embedded in it. I've looked around and I can't find anything that seems to fit.

Does anyone know a piece of software that does this?

I know you said you're looking for a text editor that lets you edit remote files over an ftp session, but how about an FTP client that lets you launch your favorite editor over those remote files? Filezilla does that with virtually any editor you want.
--Bryan

I do have Filezilla installed and am familiar with it for editing text files. I can use that as an option but I was wondering if there was a text editor that had it all embedded, just to make things a little easier.

I've tried Editplus in Wine and it works, except the FTP/SFTP part, which is the part I am most interested in.

Hi.

How about mc (MidnightCommander)?

Almost every advanced ftp client has either a default editor or a way to add in your favorite editor.

You can try freeware PsPad, it works under wine (use beta version). It has integrated ftp client and you can edit remote files (they are sent by ftp when you use "Save" command), but I do not understand sentence "save multiple FTP/SFTP sessions". If you mean to store login informations to your favorite servers - it has. If by session you mean opened remote files - it can't restore it after exiting application (maybe after manual connection to server, I didn't tried yet). Maybe it will be available in the future as localy it can store sessions, it is called "Project".

I typically just use konqueror (or dolphin) using fish:// or ftp:// (using kate as the text editor).

Edit: Kwallet can remember your sessions too.

There are many alternatives, then. One more.

In Ubuntu FTP is integrated to the file system (access the location like "ftp://ftp.server.com" from file manager). Mounting it is like any other mountable thing. It may be remembered and bookmarked.

Then you can use any installed editor, even from the a terminal (just find the mount point).

I tested this now with Gedit. After umounting the FTP folder and closing Gedit, I opened Gedit again and tried to access that file I saw through the FTP. Ubuntu asked my password again to mount the FTP folder. So, any editor that would use sessions would work this way, I guess.

Neat!