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As I’m fed up of DWCS3 on my Mac for straight coding. I want to start using textmate. I love the fact that its so lean and I think the bundles will save me a lot of time as I’m getting into CI/jQuery and ajaxy stuff.

However, I hate having to keep FTPing stuff up every time I make a change, I’m just too used to Apple+Shift+U on DW.

Since there a heck of a lot of textmaters here, can someone offer a solution. Is there a way of setting up ‘ftp folders’ and working straight on the server? I’m looking for a sort of one-window-textmate-ftp-to-remote solution. 😊

Hey I just discovered this thing called Google!!

http://minimaldesign.net/blog/workflow/remote-textmate-projects

EDIT - which turns out to be slow as hell! Anyone?

Not sure unfortunately… I never work with live sites like this - I always work on a local development server and when my changes work and have been browser-tested I push those changes to the live.

I’ve found a better solution: I’ve got a local version of the files for my project, then I use a macro to save and upload the file to the server using the transmit bundle docksend. I think it will do just fine, but for some reason I think it only works some of the time…

I used textmate for a long time but now use coda. It just seems to run much quicker where textmate gets bogged down with too many files and the UI suffers.
Coda is easier to look at too.
Both of them have what are in my opinion really awkward search functions. Textmate has the slight advantage of being able to search across files but that’s about it. If you’re used to a DW/Zend search set up you’re not going to like either of what Textmate or Coda have to offer.
If FTP is a concern Coda has the advantage there too as it’s built right in so you navigate on the remote directory using the left pane same as you would a regular file structure and then when you save it saves directly to the server.
I don’t really want to get all preachy on you but the method that ucantblamem suggests really is best practice. Editing live on your webserver should be avoided.

I’ve eventually come up with a solution that I’m happy with. Local Textmate project and a key-combination to upload via Transmit. It works perfectly, thanks guys.

I’ve tried Coda webthink, I do like it, but I’m drawn to Textmate as its got an excellent windows counterpart, called E, which I’ll use also.

One reason I use BBEdit is search. You can search open docs, files, folders, etc. With and without grep. To make a change to an entire CI project, for example, simply search all the files in the /system/application folder (or wherever your app resides). I tend to use the sync feature of Transmit to update developer -> live. No nerd credits, but fast and easy.