I used this years ago and just tried it out this version. I really wanted to like it. Sadly, it still lives in a world where we all use MySQL, SVN, and FTP. Git may be supported, but it's an afterthought. For $99, Panic should include a time machine back to 2004.
Coda 2.5 Released
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Re: Coda 2.5 Released
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You're absolutely right about the challenges, but mounting SFTP drives locally wouldn't solve the problem - in that scenario, every file would still have to be downloaded to your machine in order to be searched. It doesn't seem totally unsolvable, though. I mean, if Coda can connect via SFTP then it can almost certainly connect to the server and run commands like awk, grep, find, Silver Searcher, etc. There's no tech…
Yeah, local SFTP would still be horribly inefficient; presumably you'd be aware of the leaky abstraction and use it lightly, whereas things would get messy if Coda tried to abstract it for you. > There's no technical reason why Coda couldn't run those commands on the remote host and return their results to you. The other obstacle I see is Windows-based S/FTP servers, which presumably lacks grep, et al. (One other lit…
The other obstacle I see is Windows-based S/FTP servers, which presumably lacks grep, et al.
I believe a lot of Windows users who run SFTP do so via Cygwin's sshd, which for most intents and purposes is a full Posix implementation. At the very least, you can grep your heart out! (I've run it on a few Windows servers myself)
I don't have the slightest clue what Cygwin's relative marketshare is in the Windows SFTP space but I'm guessing it's pretty high because all the other solutions I found were from weirdo vendors I'd never heard of, very expensive, or both. I also had a hunch that a lot of the commercial solutions were wrapping/using Cygwin but I never looked into it.
Regardless, yeah, some servers would not be remotely searchable! This doesn't seem unsolveable from a UI perspective. Coda could disable the search box for those hosts and provide an explanatory note. Or maybe via a little red/yellow/green searchability indicator next to the remote search box.
Re: Coda 2.5 Released
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It is: http://www.sublimetext.com/3
Yes, sorry, bad wording. You can download a Sublime Text 3 Beta build, however, you need a valid key in order to use it. Edit: Could be that you only need a valid key for the development builds. I was under this impression because those are the ones that I always download.
There was a period (about 6 months?) that ST3 was in "private" beta, and you indeed had to buy a license to use it.
For a while now it's in "open" beta, meaning everyone can download and use it.