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Thats very cool, because its much faster as the "downloading, modifying, uploading"-process. |
Neither FTP nor SFTP support editing the files in place. In other words, you have to download the files for editing and upload them when you finished. So it always require two transactions (download and upload) instead of just one (upload) that would be the case if you had local copies of all the files. So it's clear which why works much faster.
On the other hand, you can edit your files in place using Terminals, like ssh and telnet. Both are supported by PhpED.
Regarding projects, you can easily setup your projects without any local copies. Create an ftp account (Tools->Accounts), create project, set any empty local directory for the project, set publishing and remote root appropriately. To open the files for editing and debugging, use Explorer window.