Today, I encountered an interesting tool. Usually, Putty fulfills most of my needs to a SSH client. Only if I want to transfer files with Putty, I had to use another tool. Until now, I used Filezilla. But today I saw a cool tool on the computer of a teammate. It’s called WinSCP and works very well with Putty.

First of all, you have to define the location of the Putty executable.

After that, you can import all Putty connections into the connection window:

If you have an open WinSCP connection, you are now able to open a Putty windows with just hitting CTRL + P. And after this fast setup, you can use WinSCP as your file transfer client.

Furthermore, for people who don’t know how to use vim (that’s not me , there is another nice feature with WinSCP: it let’s you edit all files directly in your favourite editor. Just double click at a file and edit the file. People reading this blog knows, that my favourite editor is Programmer’s Notepad.

To define Programmer’s Notepad as your primary notepad in WinSCP, just open the preference window and add a new editor:

Active the option “External editor opens multiple files in one window (process)” and save it with pressing okay. To use Programmer’s Notepad as your primary editor, just move the new entry “Pn” at the top of the editor list.

That’s it. Now you can edit every file on the host system with just a double-click. Enjoy it!

 

 

 

 

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