[cec@gryphon.gsfc.nasa.gov: Re: [vim] ftp access from within vim]

[Nathan Saper]

I think that der.hans was looking for something like this a few days ago...

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To: soren.edzen@frontec.se
From: "Dr. Charles E. Campbell" <cec@gryphon.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: [vim] ftp access from within vim
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:02:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: vim@vim.org (Vim)

Thus saith =?ISO-8859-1?B?IlP2cmVuIEVkeuluIg==?=:
> Is there a way to edit a file directly via ftp without downloading and
> uploading?

Hello!

With vim 5.x, try
http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#vimlinks_scripts
and click on "netrw.vim vim5.x".  You can

:Nr ftp://host/path
:Nw ftp://host/path
:Nr rcp://host/path
:Nw rcp://host/path

etc.

With vim 6.0 several forms of network-oriented file transfer will be
both available and transparent!  One will be able to

vim ftp://host/path

and vim will automatically use <netrw.vim> to read/write the file.
Supported transports include: ftp, rcp, scp, and http.

Regards,
C Campbell

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