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wvenable on Nov 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: VS Code Roadmap 2018

Why does an editor need SFTP support?

Is this similar to Zawinski's law of software denvelopment?

Scarbutt on Nov 1, 2017 [–]

Why does an editor need SFTP support?

Maybe he wants remote editing support, which is a nice a feature for an editor to have.

wvenable on Nov 1, 2017 | [–]

Of course that's what he wants but I feel like putting that in the editor is the wrong level of abstraction.

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