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Quanta Gold Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how commercial Linux Web development environments stack up against
those for other OS's? There's a reivew at Digital-Web
of Quanta Gold, the commercial HTML editor from theKompany.com. I've always been a fan of Quanta Plus, but it's
interesting to see what the commercial application has (and doesn't have). The
full review
of Quanta Gold can be found here."
I know what you mean. At my last job I had a Windows laptop (which had to stay Windows since I had to write InstallShield installers and such). I didn't much like it at first but two things were hard to leave behind: EditPlus and WinSCP. I don't know why I liked EditPlus so much. It was lightweight and did just enough (but more than vim or notepad). It never crashed on me and I liked its sytnax highlighting. Quanta is pretty close though, and is what I wind up using now for XML/HTML/TXT/Whatever more often than not. I wish the word wrap would behave, but that's a minor thing.
WinSCP was really hard to leave. Early versions had serious memory leaks, but the last version I tried (about a year about I guess) worked fine. I looked all over for a gui version of it in the Linux world. I couldn't fnd anything. The closest I got was using scp (and sftp, I suppose) in gFTP. (Start up a connection and then select 'SSH2' in the drop-down near the top, to the far right.) But with the fish kio slave, I don't have to worry about that. I worked from home today and spent 14 hours today in Quanta and Konqueror, editing a bunch of remote files at work. It got a little slow a couple times, but that's network latency.
Using WinSCP, it is so incredibly easy, I can't believe someone hasn't copied it for gnu/linux. I just can't believe it. It's two windows, similar to commander, or a split view of konqueror, and it's drag and drop. That's it. You can specify ssh, login name/pwd, type of encryption, and other basics, but all it is,is drag and drop. Do you want to convert to all lowercase? Do you want to delete files on remote server? Do you want to capitalize first letter of files? Overwrite? That's it. Plain and simple drag and drop. No magic incantation scp command lines. You don't have to memorize a command line, or write it down, or hope it doesn't get bumped from your bash history file
Like the other poster said, I think you'd like using kio_fish. It does pretty much all this. And as an added bonus, if you use ssh-agent then you can get that same functionality yet never have to type a password. That's even easier (if you can get around the security implications).
If you want to make Konqueror look like WinSCP, you just go to Window -> Split View Left/Right, type in the 'fish://example.com' thing in the location bar, enter your password, then click in the right-hand pane and click on the home icon (or type 'file:/path/to/somewhere' in the location bar if you don't want to go $HOME) and you're done. Feel free to right-click on files, drag them around between the two panes, make new local or remote directories, whatever. I hear that there's a way to run remote scripts (you can lower case files with a 3-line shell script) but I haven't looked into it.
After reading the response from the author of the article in the post, I think that having this remote file tree in the tabbed pane of an app like Quanta would be a big help. But even without this, kio_fish makes it really easy to use files remotely. It might be worth the KDE upgrade for you (and the new KDE just looks nice, too).
-B
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Working on suse 8.1 now, trying to download knoppix and transfer files from another server using scp, and once again, I'm stuck. I have a ton of mp3 files, I need to tranfer over so I can back them up and burn them on the cd burner I finally got working. Once that's done, I can ftp install 8.2 on the server I had the music on and get the nifty new kde. But since scp isn't working for me, I'm stuck. I'm going to try the fish thing tomorrow (later today). If I had WinSCP, I'd be done already.
Anyone know a decent mirror for Knoppix? I'm averaging 15 KB on over a half dozen mirrors.
Why am I using kde 3.0.*? How about why am I still/just finished using suse 7.3? Because it works, because my sites need to stay up without fooling with them, etc. The 8.0 suse install on my desktop has been working flawlessly, and I've had problems with online update with 7.3, 8.0 and 8.1, multiple 8.0 installs. I'm not going to break it if it ain't broke.
So now I'm wiping two 7.3 installs, going to put 8.2 suse on them, use one for apach/nfs/bind/mail, second for development/backup, and the second will sit next to my desktop, so I can backup my 8.0 box till I get a few more hard drives for my raid setup. And the knoppix is so I can try debian without torturing myself through the install. Would have like to try libranet 2.8, or even 2.7, but I'm not paying for testing out a distro. Especially a superseded version of debian. I've done that before with suse and other distros, and it got tired real fast. If it works, and I'll use it in production, I'll consider paying for it, depending on how long it lasts. Even ms isn't asking for payments every six months.