Short story made long:

Roughly a year and a half ago, I really started craving a good IDE. The one thing that has always prevented me from buying is the fact that none of them run on Linux and support SFTP tunnelling.

In talking to a few of the IDE manufacturers, and their PMs, I've found that they don't think it would have any bearing on their sales. Macromedia has built it into Dreamweaver so obviously there's one.

Every dev I work closely with uses vi over ssh. I'll probably buy the first IDE that does finally support SFTP tunneling and runs on Linux. I'm curious to find out if any of you are in the same boat. Anyone?

    ok I am a n00b prolly (:eek: ) but the first hit you get on google for SFTP is
    http://www.xbill.org/sftp/

    😃

    As i don't know about this I will decine to comment on the issue (although I inderctly already did, didn't I?)

      Yep. That's it. It's just secure (encrypted) FTP.

        So what are looking for, an SFTP client or an IDE that supports SFTP?

          Yep. An IDE that supports FTP.

          Although, Dmitri from Nusphere brought up another good way to do it: tunnelling rsync through ssh.

          I coulda been much clearer in my original post. Basically, I'm just looking for an IDE that allows me to upload files to a secured server. There are very few machines that I work with that allow FTP, so I can't justify the cost of any of the current IDEs.

            OK back to topic.

            I don't even use the ftp feature in my editor so I guess I wouldn't use SFTP...

              I've just gotten too used to coding serverside I guess. Looks like I'm the only one here that's having this dilemna.

                2 months later

                John, just wondered how you got on with this?

                  well, if you really cant find such an IDE (and I know of none too), then you'll just have to use sftp separately I suppose.

                  I am in the current situation as you, except that I dont really need the IDE as yet so that isnt a problem.

                    I feel your pain slightly...
                    If I'm at work and need to edit a file on my server at home, I'm glad that UltraEdit does SFTP. Unfortunately, it doesn't run on Linux sans emulation, and usually when I'm using Linux/BSD/OSX, I'm at home, so I have alternative local access methods.

                    If you find anything, like a plugin to quanta or whatever, please let us all know.

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