A feature that still keeps me to Quanta on linux is the support for KDE open/save box where you can use the KDE builtin IO protocols (ftp, fish). This way I can work on remote server through ftp, ssh with no problem. I guess using KDE support will break windows version, so it would be better if you built the ability to work through ssh/ftp into PHPEd.
If I try to work through samba on the remote servers, if they are over 100ms far the file explorer hangs from time to time trying to refresh the folder . It is not very productive.

I prefer to work with my projects using notebook. So I keep all the files on the local disk and publish back to the server only changed files. It's a one-way synchronization and therefore works fast and reliable.
Don't miss smart upload feature that filters out all non-modified files.

not everybody has a laptop

actually, laptop is not involved much...
If you oftne chage you workplace, you can store project in CVS repository. It's even better because you always can roll-back your site to a specified snapshot/date.

I think we are loosing the point. Even with cvs if you don't have a local webserver to test in real situation the current script you will have to:
- checkin
- go to remote server
- checkout
While with Quanta I just press Ctrl+S and can test on the server ... and checkin when I have a working thing.
And don't tell me I can test it with the PHPEd debugger because there might be differences between php version on server and PHPEd
My problem is that I don't have Quanta on Windows and working through ssh on remote hosts it a problem.

In PHPED you can also press Ctrl-S and have all files saved and simultaneously posted to the the upload queue. SmartSync would filter out all non-modified files.
To get the effect you'd assign Ctrl-S shortcut to SaveAll function, then check AutoUpload option which is on IDE tab in the settings dialog.

I did not think of that.. using what protocol does it do the Sync? Is it encrypted? I mean I am working with sensitive data sometimes..

no, phped does not support encrypted protocols, yet.