Why the gedit-ftp-browser plugin doesn’t come right out of the box with gedit on every Ubuntu installation is beyond me. I love using Gedit to code because it’s lightweight, simple, uncluttered, extensible, and stable. I had already tried a bunch of other IDE’s for linux but they just don’t do it for me – most were bloated, unstable or just didn’t go with my workflow.
A sticking point with me was gedit’s inability to edit and save directly to servers. Prior to finding this plugin, I had to use a separate FTP program to upload any new work, and quite frankly, that’s very tedious. So anyway, plugin got.
A tip of the hat to the fellows who came up with this, and I hope that somewhere down the line, this functionality will come right out of the box.
Get the gedit-ftp-browser plugin.
Tags: gedit, gnome, plugins, Ubuntu, web development