The topic of an enhancement request in these Textpad forums of adding a feature to allow FTP within Textpad has been repeatedly requested. And gets repeatedly discounted. In spite of the repetition of the surfacing of that request (myself included), people who bother to reply offer several alternatives (samba, windrive, macros, etc.).
Robellis52 - I would suggest you give
Editplus a try. It has a very nice FTP function right there under the file menu - I have seven different *nix accounts preset with my userid. You can also save Projects (aka Workspace in textpad) where all the files come from one or more remote hosts. It's shareware and is priced comparably to textpad, too.
Personally, I prefer the Textpad interface and menu structure to that in Editplus, but the ability to FTP to hosts within our network has forced us to no longer acquire Textpad licenses, but instead, we have shifted to Editplus where people need a full-featured, ftp-enabled, plain text editor.
I have found that everything you want to do in Textpad, can be done in Editplus (just from different menus).
I keep coming back to textpad.com hopeful that someday I'll see the FTP feature added, but it looks like that might never pan out. If you search in these forums, you'll see requests going back to 2002 and earlier for FTP functionality.
Good luck.
robellis52 wrote:I use textpad a lot to edit unix files and scripts (due to my resiliance to use editors such as pico and vi)
Currently I save the text file, then use dos to ftp the file over to unix
It would be great if there was an "ftp file" button within textpad allowing you to ftp over the current document to a pre-defined location.
(The reason I say predefined is because it would be far easier to just click a button than have to enter the ftp details each and every time)