remote editing

[cbertelli]

Textmate2 and SublimeText may edit a file remotely using
https://github.com/aurora/rmate
Could it be possible tu use a similar solution in Textadept?
Vim shows another possible solution, using netrw.
Is someone already working on one of these?

[orbitalquark]

Not that I am aware of. Textadept does not have a built-in capability to connect to the internet or a local network. It is just a text editor.

[snoopy]

You could use SSHFS. It lets you mount a remote filesystem locally which you can then edit normally with Textadept.
I've used it in the past and it worked really well.

[orbitalquark]

Ah that's a good point. I've done that myself in the past. Thanks for the reminder!

[cbertelli]

Thank you very much. I'm already doing this, but working with several projects I'm continuously mounting/unmounting remotes by rclone (wonderful!). What I thought of is adapting netrw (https://vimhelp.org/pi_netrw.txt.html) to supplement textadept file explorer. I understand the point by orbitalquark, pure KISS applied. Anyway it would be useful to open a remote file on my desktop as rmate does. Sorry for bothering everyone here.

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[orbitalquark]

Not a bother at all. Discussions are good :)

[cbertelli]

Probably not worth while, but I have tried to understand if it is feasible. So I list here what I have found if useful for anyone or for myself-in-the-future (who knows?). This is the original page for rmate: blog.macromates.com/2011/mate-and-rmate/. There is a repository with python code for SublimeText that may be translated into lua and adapted to the file explorer of textadept: github.com/gja/sublime-rmate/. A similar approach was used for Atom here: atom.io/packages/remote-atom (even if coffee to lua is not so easy).
It's very convenient. You are logged in ssh to a host, you can rmate your file and it opens in your editor-of-choice on your desktop...

[rgieseke]

Should be possible to build an rmate extension for Textadept, i haven't checked the details how the VS Code or Atom etc. extensions work in detail but see for example the Textadept Language Server implementation for an extension connecting to an external tool.

[cbertelli]

Hello, I didn't know, but Weihang Ding made rmate-server, a generic rmate-server daemon that can broker a remote file to Textadept. It needs a configuration for any editor, mine for Textadept on MacOS is here:

{
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 52698,
    "editor": {
        "command": "/Applications/Textadept.app/Contents/MacOS/textadept_osx",
        "args": [
            "{{file}}"
        ]
    }
}

Just change the command reference to the location of textadept on Linux or Windows, if you want to use it.
The developer suggested using the -w parameter for other editors

{
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": 52698,
    "editor": {
        "command": "mate",
        "args": [
            "-w",
            "{{file}}"
        ]
    }
}

but I found it to be unnecessary on Textadept.

[rgieseke]

Awesome, great find!