I noticed in this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxDJof7xxQ – that Ian uses a text editor that enables maintaining a FTP connection. Whenever he saves the text-file (which is a HTML file in his case), that update gets sent to the server automatically. I would love to be able to do that.
As for now I use Notepad++ in which I predominately create HTML and JavaScript text files. My machine is Windows 7. I have a web-hosting account (ASP.net) for my domains, which also includes a FTP account, of course.
I am looking for a lightweight text-editor that enables the functionality which can be seen in the above video – I want to be able to open a text-file (remotely via FTP), edit it, and then just hit CTRL+S to send the updated version to the remote server via FTP.
Doesn’t Notepad++ have a plug-in for this? I think I noticed that a while back…
Not quite what you’re looking for, the FileZilla FTP client will detect that the file being edited has been modified and prompts you to upload it (maybe that can be made automatic also).