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Within our company we use a proprietary template engine, which stores its templates in a MySQL database. We recently developed a WebDAV interface for this, which allows us to use standard tools to edit them, instead of a nasty <textarea>.

The standard operating-system webdav clients aren't great though, so for OS/X we went with Coda, which has amazing WebDAV support and saves us a ton of time.

Some of our devs are on Windows though, is anyone aware of a good editor that comes with built-in WebDAV support?

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You can mount the WebDAV URI as a local drive and then access it using a standard editor, like notepad.exe or slightly fancier ones such as Notepad++.

lfaraone
The problem with the built-in windows client, is that it makes a lot of unneeded request for files it won't actually need. This makes the experience very slow. OS/X finder was even worse, which is why Coda is so much better (because it's not a standard mount, it just does exactly the request it needs to).
Evert
Hm?As far as I can tell, it doesn't actually *download* the files unless you try and open them.
lfaraone
It does a lot more though, windows will check for updates of the files, scan directories excessively, etc. It's difficult to use over a slow connection mainly, just like how the FTP mounting experience is windows is sub-par.
Evert
There also appear to be other utilities you can use detailed on http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/webdav , but they seem to cost money.
lfaraone
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The oXygen XML editor can use WebDAV. It might be worth checking if one can edit non XML files with it as well.

lothar
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I ended up using Netdrive. Even though it has it's own share of problems (bad, bad multi-user support) the client behaves a lot smoother than Windows' and does a lot of built-in caching.

Upvoted both other answers for helpfulness

Evert
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You can use a good FTP client (such as CrossFTP that handles SFTP, WebDav, and Amazon S3 protocols) to edit your remote files with your favorite editor.