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Editing remote files from Mac OS
Cyberduck
Cyberduck is Free and Open Source (GPL) software that acts as a SFTP client. Donations are encouraged, but not required to use the software.
It has a feature that allows you to select a remote file to edit, and it will then copy it down, and synchronize your edits back to the server.
It also has an option to synchronize a local directory with a remote directory.
FUSE with sshfs
There are a number of open-source options for using FUSE with sshfs including the GUI http://macfusionapp.org/ that builds on top of macfuse.
See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
The development of macfuse itself by the original developers seems to have stalled, but there is a more up to date fork at https://github.com/bfleischer/macfuse Using that probably requires Xcode and the desire to learn how to build from source.
The sshfs package and its dependency, fuse, are both available via a number of popular package managers, including Homebrew and Aptitude.
Expandrive
A commercial alternative built on FUSE is:
Transmit
Another commercial alternative (initially built on FUSE, but not anymore), with performance that trumps all of the above: Panic's Transmit 4.
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