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Jesper asks: QuestionHey, I’m used to Linux, and there you have various kernel modules that allows you to “mount” SFTP drives. Also, in emacs, you can get a mode called tramp, which allows you to edit files over SSH. This is quite useful, and the loss of which, has left me less productive than I was. Is there any way to replicate this behavior? I’m aware that you can “Edit in external editor” in many FTP/SFTP clients, but that just doesn’t cut it. Am I stuck with the hideous aquamacs on OSX to do my job? AnswerI had a similar problem a while back and I finally settled on TextWrangler for handling this. It lets you browse the remote SFTP server, pick the file to edit, downloads to a temp file, and when you save it re-uploads to the remove server. I use this for editing almost every file on this server, actually. It’s fast, it’s free, it’s functional. Go get it. It’s big brother BBEdit does it as well, but the BB in BBEdit no longer really applies…
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Interarchy has a ‘NetDisk’ feature which kinda sorta lets you mount an sftp folder as a disk. I say kinda sorta because Interarchy periodically synchronises the NetDisk so changes are not immediately saved to the SFTP volume.