Edit files on Ubuntu from Windows

I've got Ubuntu 7.04 installed, so far almost everything seems to be going pretty smoothly as far as connecting through VNC, using PuTTy to connect via SSH, apt-get'ing ssh, apache, mysql, php, phpmyadmin.

I haven't been able to figure how to edit files from my Windows laptop without using VNC to view the text-editor on the Ubuntu box though.

I read somthing about SSH file transfers, but I haven't found it in a form I understand though.

How can I edit text files from my Ubuntu box on my Windows laptop without having to use VNC to view an editor on the Ubuntu boxes desktop ?

Getting FTP (proftpd) working seems to have solved that problem for now.

It would be nice not to need to have both an SSH & FTP command prompt going though.
I chown name:group 'ed my /var/www folder for Apache so that works like I'm used to now.
I'm guessing I should just chown configuration files temporarily when I need to edit them.

Having SSH & Proftp setup, I can use Filezilla from Windows just like I normally would, I revisited the "View/Edit" context menu item in Filezilla, with SSH going I can set that menu item to my normal Windows Notepad2 & edit pretty seamlessly.

For the most part I can do everything I need with just Filezilla to bridge between the Windows XP laptop & Ubuntu box.
PuTTy is kept handy to quickly chown files/directories if needed.