Opening and editing files

termscp can open files with an external application and edit text files in your configured editor. Both local and remote files are supported.

Open and Open With

Press <V> to open a file with the system default application for its file type. termscp relies on your operating system’s default opener (powered by the open crate), so make sure at least one of the following is available on your system.

• Windows: handled automatically through the start command.
• macOS: handled automatically through open, which is already installed.
• Linux: one of xdg-open, gio, gnome-open, or kde-open must be installed.
• WSL: wslview is required. Install wslu.

Press <W> to open a file with a program you specify.

Editing text files

Press <O> to open a file in your configured text editor. Only text files are supported; binary files are not.

If the file is located on the remote host, it is first downloaded into your temporary file directory, and then re-uploaded to the remote host only if you changed it. termscp detects changes by checking the file’s last modification time.

Editing remote files

You cannot edit a remote file in place directly from the remote panel. When you open a remote file, it is downloaded into a temporary directory, but termscp cannot create a watcher to detect when the external program you used to open it has closed, so it cannot tell when you are done editing. To edit a remote file, download it to a local directory first, edit it there, and then upload it again.