How do I install Editor-Free [Edit files and FTP in-game!]?

Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. Download the .jar. Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile. Opens on Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

What Minecraft version does Editor-Free [Edit files and FTP in-game!] work with?

The listing gives Minecraft 1.8, 1.9. This is the version stated by the author or source site, not something we verified ourselves.

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Editor-Free [Edit files and FTP in-game!]

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The impossible made possible

A clean, in-game FTP alternative for managing and editing files on your server

Note: This is the free version of Editor. It has less features than the premium version, as outlined below. You can purchase the premium version for $5.61 here

Editor is an in-game file editor and manager. With editor you can view, edit, create, delete, copy, paste and rename files and folders on your server. It allows customisation such as sorting by name or type, showing or hiding hidden files and folders, viewing extensions, size, creation date and last modified date, and much more.

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A responsive, easy to use, easy to navigate, clean GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Many tools for file management
Lots of information of files and folders
Ability to perform tasks such as creating, deleting, renaming, etc. files and folders
A simple but extremely powerful file/config editor
Much much more

General file manager GUI (Hovering over file)

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General file manager GUI (Hovering over folder)

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Creating a new folder

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Creating a new file

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Hovering over new file

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Editing an example configuration (Featherboard RemoteSync)

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Editing line 13 of example configuration

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After editing line 13

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Editing line 14

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After editing line 14

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Before adding a new line after line 42

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After adding a new line after line 42

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Before deleting the new line (43)

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After deleting the new line (43)

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Before clicking the undo button

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After clicking the undo button

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Before clicking the redo button

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After clicking the redo button

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Before clicking scroll down

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After clicking scroll down

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After clicking return to FileManager

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Redstone Dust
1. Acts as title for tools menu
2. When clicked will take back to plugins folder
Redstone Torch
1. Shows your location's breadcrumb
  1. This is the trail of folders that leads to the current one you're in
  2. Example: \Users\Name\Desktop\Server\plugins\
2. When clicked it will refresh the current folder
  1. This will display any new files or folders that were made since you entered your current folder
Up Arrow
1. Shows the upper folder
  1. This is the folder that is one above yours - the folder that you had to go into to see your current folder
2. When clicked, it will enter the upper folder
Book
1. When clicked, it will open a new interface to create a new folder
  1. Here you will choose the name of the folder that you wish to create
  2. After clicking the result, you will be presented with a dialogue that shows whether creation was successful or not
Paper
1. When clicked, it will open a new interface to create a new file
  1. Here you will choose the name of the file that you wish to create
  2. After clicking the result, you will be presented with a dialogue that shows whether creation was successful or not
Lava Bucket
1. Shows whether delete mode is enabled or not
  1. If delete mode is enabled, clicking a file or folder will present a dialogue to confirm you wish to delete said file or folder, which after confirming will show whether deletion was successful or not
2. When clicked, it will toggle delete mode on or off
Sign / Zombie-Pigman
1. Shows whether you have sorted files and folders by type or by name
2. When clicked, it will toggle you from sorting by type to sort by name, or vice versa
Steve / Herobrine
1. Shows whether you have chosen to show hidden files and folders or not
2. When clicked, it will toggle showing hidden files and folders
3. If hidden files are enabled, they will show up as yellow paper to make them distinguishable from normal files
Barrier
1. When clicked, it will exit the Editor GUI and take you back to the main menu
2. The same can be achieved simply by pressing escape
Written Book
1. When clicked, it will activate copy mode
2. You can then start clicking files and folders to add them to your clipboard
3. You can remove the latest file / folder added to your clipboard by scroll clicking
4. You can clear your clipboard by right clicking
5. You can exit copy mode by left clicking the icon again
Enchanted Book
1. If copy mode is enabled, you will see this tool
2. When clicked, the contents of your clipboard will be pasted to the current folder you are inside

In the free version of Editor, there are a few advertisements / less features:

You must wait 5 seconds at an advertisement before editing
Your preferences (Sort by name/type, Show hidden files) will not be saved between leaving / rejoining the server, reloads or restarts
You are not able to choose how many lines to print at a time whilst editing a file - it is locked to 50
You are not able to copy / paste files
You are not able to rename files
You are not able to see the extension, size, date created or date last modified of files and folders (You can still see the extension after the filename.xyz)
It is branded with insou / cldfire's SpigotMC profile pages.
The free version will not receive all the cool updates coming to the premium version (zipping files, searching for files, calculating folder sizes, bookmarking files (eg. Essentials config, Featherboard config, etc.))

None of these limitations exist in the premium version, and I would really appreciate you purchasing it to support me and the plugin. You can purchase the premium version here for $5.61

Keep in mind when I began making this plugin I had no intention of releasing a free version, however after experiencing the power of this plugin I decided to make a free version. Please do not complain about the limitations of this version - support me and purchase the premium version.

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There is only one command to use, and it is
/editor
- You require the permission editor.use to use it, or op

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Clicking the "Click to proceed!" button in the 5 second advertisement instantly as it becomes available may make the GUI unresponsive. Wait at least half a second before clicking to proceed. If you experience this bug, simply hit escape until you've exited the GUI completely and try again.
If you receive a java.lang.ClassCastException in the console after confirming all of the disclaimers, restart your server completely. This is an extremely rare bug and will only happen when you have just replaced the Editor jar, have reloaded and are in some very specific and currently unknown circumstances.

While files show their size (In B, kB, MB, GB, etc.), folders do not. This is because there is no native way in Java to get the size of every file contained in a folder, which means you have to go through every file in the folder, which when you are in very high level directories (Think something like the base folder of your hard drive), it can take 10-15 seconds to calculate the size. For this reason, folders do not show their size as it would make the GUI laggy and annoying to use

When creating a new folder, if you name it something like "Folder 1\Folder 2\Folder 3" (If you are on Windows, for Mac/Linux it would be "/" instead of "\"), it will create a folder named "Folder 1" which contains a folder called "Folder 2" which contains a folder called "Folder 3"
The icons in the file manager represent different things: A piece of paper represents a file. A yellow piece of paper represents a hidden file. A chest-minecart represents a folder that contains something. A normal minecart represents an empty folder
If you are not getting all the lines shown of a file (e.g you're only seeing lines 12-50 at the top scroll), you can decrease the amount of lines that are printed per scroll in the preferences page. Decreasing that number by 15 for example would most likely then show you all of lines 1-35
If you are being left with a lot of empty space when printing lines of a file, you can increase the number of lines that are printed per scroll in the preferences page. Increasing that number by 10 for example would show 60 lines per scroll instead of 50
You can quickly change a file's extension type by simply right clicking the file to rename it, then changing the extension after the dot in the rename interface. For example you could change "test.txt" to "test.yml" by renaming the "txt" to "yml"
When editing a file, the previous line that you edited will be highlighted in gold italic, so you can quickly see the line of which you edited last
When editing a file, if you make a mistake and for example accidentally delete a line, you can hit the undo button at the bottom to revert that change. Subsequently, if you hit the undo button accidentally, you can click the redo button to redo what you just undid
When copying files, if you accidentally click a file or folder you didn't mean to copy, you can scroll click your clipboard to remove the latest thing you copied. You can also right click to clear it completely
If you make a new file from Finder for example, and it doesn't show up instantly in the Editor GUI, simply click the redstone torch to refresh the files in your current directory and it will show up
If you are moving around the file manager and you happen to get lost, you can click the redstone dust in the top left to return to your plugins folder
Feel free to add some more tips and tricks for Editor if you have any!

I would like to say thank you very much to @Cldfire , there is absolutely no way this plugin would be what it is now without all his effort and amazing ideas he contributed. If you could all head over to his profile and spam him with a bunch of likes, write something nice on his profile, etc. that would be amazing. For those of you whom don't know, he is a Junior Mod here on Spigot and is always helping the community, righting the wrong, and always gives and never asks. He offered to help me make this plugin completely voluntarily after I asked where I could post a GFX question about it. He truly is a bloody legend, ily.
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Please don't leave bugs, problems, feature requests, etc. in a review. The review should reflect your general opinion of the plugin. If you have any of the above, feel free to PM me them or leave them in the discussion page.
If you enjoy using Editor-Free, please do consider purchasing the premium version. It helps show your appreciation towards all the effort that has gone into this plugin and you get a lot more features to back it.
Why does it say "The impossible made possible" at the top? I put that there because when I got the idea for a plugin like this, I googled to see if there were any plugins that were remotely similar. I came across one dodgy yaml editor that barely worked and was only command based, but what I came across a lot of were Bukkit threads of server owners asking for a plugin like this. All they were answered with was "You're an idiot - that is impossible". That fuelled a lot of my effort into this project, so yes - the impossible is possible. Well according to Bukkit, anyway.
I'm not the best GFX editor and I never claimed to be - I know this page is pretty poorly designed. If you want to help out with it and maybe snag a free copy of the premium version, feel free to PM me.
The premium version will be out in a couple of days hopefully, please be patient

Commands

/editor — Base Editor Command
/el — Edit Line Command

Plugin details

Plugin version 1.1

Read from the plugin's own plugin.yml.

Quick facts

Edition: Minecraft Java
File type: .jar
Minecraft versions listed: 1.8, 1.9
How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
Where to get it: Opens on Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.

Editor-Free [Edit files and FTP in-game!] is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.8, 1.9. Downloaded 1,806 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.

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