Comments on: Modify Remote Files with VIM’s Built in FTP Plugin

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:06:54 +0000

@VIM

The plugin is built into vim.

By: VIM

VIM — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:40:35 +0000

Please share the URL for the plugin also.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:31:17 +0000

arn, I think you can do:

vim ftp://username:password@yourdoamin.com//

But I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s best to type it in when after you issue the command.

Also, you will need the full version of vim to do this. Some distributions come with just a light package that doesn’t have this built in plugin.

By: arn

arn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:59:43 +0000

may i ask where the password should go?

By: Using Markers in Vim

Using Markers in Vim — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:27:12 +0000

[...] also makes perfect sense to use vim when editing remote files for two reasons. The first being that vim can connect remotely through FTP, SFTP, or SCP. The [...]

By: Jade Robbins

Jade Robbins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:53:58 +0000

P.S. <3 Vi 4 LYFE!

By: Jade Robbins

Jade Robbins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:53:03 +0000

doesn’t smbfs create a persistent connection? Alot of the servers i connect to have twitchy sysadmins that don’t want a persistent connection like that.

That is cool it supports sftp though, cause that is essentially the same thing as what I wanted.

Thanks!

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:40:25 +0000

Jade,

For samba shares I would just mount it with smbfs.

This supports:
Rsync
scp
ftp
sftp
http

By: Jade Robbins

Jade Robbins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:49:29 +0000

I was going to make a snobby comment about just SSH’ing into the box you are editing, but then I realized alot of times I just want to SSH into windows boxes but I CANT! This is perfect.

Does it do smb:// as well?