Re: remote file editing and local copy for web development (like dreamweaver)

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Infrid <debate@infrid.com> writes:

> hi all,
> I'm a web developers and my co-workers use dreamweaver for editing PHP
> files in a live environment (I know is a bad practice) in this way:
>
> 1. From a menu they "open" the web site location, dreamweaver knows
> where the files are on the net.
>
> 2. They navigate in the file system end select the file for edit
>
> 3. dreamweaver actually download the file and it puts in a directory
> following the remote paths. Example: if you edit ~/dira/dirb/file.txt it
> create the path under c:\myWeb\dira\dirb\file.txt
>
> 4. When they save, dreamweaver write the local file and uploads it to
> the remote location.
> In the end you have a partial copy of the web site on your hard drive.
>
> how can I get the same behavior in emacs? I've searched for a packages
> for this without success.

This sounds like *exactly* what tramp does, except for the part at the
end where you have a partial copy retained locally. You don't need to
install/load/configure tramp, it should work transparently if you find a
file with a remote server specification in the filename, ie
/user@host:path/to.file. With proper ssh configuration, it becomes very
simple.

To be honest, keeping a partial local copy sounds like a bad idea.
Either edit remotely with tramp, or edit locally with git or something
similar. But maybe someone can tell you how to do the partial
solution...

Eric