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Can anyone suggest a free text editor for the Mac that allows for FTP

I currently use Text Wrangler, and recently started using Coda (which I love), but my free trial is ending on Coda. Anyone have good ones?

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What's wrong with sticking with TextWrangler ? – Paul R Jan 31 '11 at 17:12
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I've never understood: why do you want FTP in your text editor? There are programs (and command line utilities) that do FTP well already. Choose a text editor for its text-editing features; FTP separately. – Phrogz Jan 31 '11 at 17:13
I'm not overly happy with TextWrangler's interface. And I don't FTP separately because I'm not an expert at command line FTP utilities, and it is much nicer to use interface sides. – reising1 Jan 31 '11 at 17:16
This is a question for apple.stackexchange.com or superuser.com – Bavarious Jan 31 '11 at 17:16
Phrogz: Same reason I've wanted every other feature that my text editor has: because it's convenient. There are perfectly good external tools to do "search in document", too, but I see nothing to be gained by needing to add more programs and more steps to use them. – Ken Feb 1 '11 at 22:16
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Use a GUI FTP client such as Cyberduck or Transmit.

Editors and FTP clients on Mac OS X are usually well integrated, allowing you to edit files "directly on the server" when initiating the edit in your editor from the FTP client.

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You can use lftp with the EDITOR variable set properly.

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emacs, unsurprisingly, has FTP support built-in.

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