JEdit is a nice text editor for programmers. It works across many platforms, it allows in-place editing of files over FTP, and it has a lot of community support which offers a lot of nice plug-ins to extend the editor. JEdit is also free which is pretty incredible considering how powerful an editor it is.

But it has one really annoying problem with the FTP functionality. Some times when trying to save a file via FTP, if the connection is lost or interrupted, the file will not get saved. But even when the connection comes back, subsequent attempts to save the file via FTP will fail. Even worse, each of these failures takes about a minute to occur. Arg!

But here's the solution.... when saving files over FTP, JEdit creates a temporary file on the server to which the save is occurring. The name of the file is #yourFileName#save# where yourFileName is actually the name of the file you are trying to save. When the interruption of the save happens and the interruption is severe enough, this temporary file is left behind on the server. If this temporary file exists, new save attempts by JEdit will fail.

So, if JEdit is failing to save files via FTP and you know your connection is okay, go to the server you are saving to and look for this temporary file. If you find it, delete it. JEdit will then be able to save the file via FTP without any issues.