Save the project and open it any time you work on remote files and it will keep this behavior.Īnother thing I think is freaking awesome is that I can put my computer to sleep and Forklift automatically reconnects everything silently when I bring my computer back up. Each time you save, the changed files are automatically uploaded to the server. Now, any time you hit “Edit” on a file in Forklift, the file is automatically added to the project and opens in a new tab. Bring up that finder window, go up a directory, and drag the “2” folder into the Project Drawer on TextMate. In TextMate, make a new project and have it up. That should open a finder window to that directory (it’s ~/Library/Caches/2/ for me). Click on the one that looks like “2” (that’s mine but it could be different). In TextMate, right click the icon on the very top of the window of that file, and it will display the path of the file. Here’s the good part, you do this once and save it for later.

It should open up in TextMate and make the bong sound when you save it to let you know it’s uploaded. Now, go to any remote file in Forklift, and press Cmd+Sft+E to Edit the file. Make sure your editor in Forklift is set to TextMate. However, it works really well if you set it up right. Your favorites are right on the side and load pretty much instantly when clicked so you can move between lots of directories quickly using Cmd+Opt+Left/Right to switch tabs.įorklift allows you to open a remote file for editing locally, and upload the file when it changes. The panes are tabbed, and you can set it to load the last open tabs when it starts which also simplifies things. You can save favorites, not only of each pane but as a ‘workspace’ that changes both remote and local directories, so you can easily load the directories for a project right away. You can use Cmd+Left/Right to switch panes, and it syncs from the selected pane to the unselected pane. This makes it easy to work on a local copy and sync it to a remote directory with only 3 key presses (Ω+f for Forklift, Sft+Ctl+S to Sync, Enter to confirm). The keyboard shortcut menu contains every menu item (even the menu options added by Afloat*).

It has two panes that can each be a remote or local directory, and you can easily sync between them. There are a few specific ways that I have it configured to make it painless to work with remote files. Forklift is an SFTP/FTP/etc program with a lot of good features that make it easy to work on remote files. I like programs that work well without a lot of configuration and effort to use.

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