Updating web content locally?

I'm really new to owning a website, I just bought mine today! But, I've found found pretty fast that updating files can be a nuance. Make a change locally, save, re-upload.

I really prefer to code locally, as the IDE is much better. Else I'd have no problem coding with the hosts "notepad".

So, my question is, is there software of any kind that will sync your local files, to those that are开发者_开发技巧 hosted on the web host? Or is this dependent on the web host?

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i use winscp, i tell it to upload changed files, so once logged in, any changes i make locally are automatically updated. there are other ftp clients that do this also.

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you can use a file versioning system like svn to download and update files, push new versions. But that isn't really any different than what you are doing now, except that svn offers ability to keep track of previous versions and keep people from overwriting each other's work. I think maybe you might mean more like "when I open and edit file.txt in my editor and save, it is automatically updated on the server" ? If that is the case, there are a lot of editors that will let you open a file remotely and when you save it, it saves it remotely. The one I personally use is html-kit