On Tuesday, 2012-10-23, Peter Risdon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm converting to KDE from Gnome (classic) and struggling with the handling > of remote filesystems. Having googled the problem at length, I have two > questions: > > 1. If I try to use my preferred text editor, gedit, with a file on a > network drive it caches the remote file and operates on the cached version. > The only opportunity to upload it comes when the editor is closed. Is there > a way to make the editor operate on the remote file directly? It looks like > the only editor that does, and this in a laborious way, is Kate. gedit uses a different implementation for virtual file systems than KDE does (KDE uses KIO, GTK+ applications use GIO/GVFS). You'll find Kate's behavior with most other KDE applications, for gedit you'll have to contact the gedit community. > I'd appreciate being cc'd in because I don't subscribe to this list. Leaving that for reference for follow up comments Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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