Comments on: Editing Remote Files with VIM and SCP

By: webguy

webguy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:22:20 +0000

http://www.codeislove.org/?p=10
for a potential cygwin fix.

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:34:15 +0000

[[user@]host1:]file1 from scp man page, so gvim scp://user@host:/etc/profile would also work for a absolute path. And gvim scp://user@host:.bash_profile for a relative path. That whole user@host//etc/profile, user@host/.bash_profile should be depreciated in my opinion.

By: Randon

Randon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:35:23 +0000

Has anyone used this from within Cygwin? I’m trying to edit remote files on linux servers using a Windows laptop running Cygwin.

Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get it to work. I get errors like ‘can’t open file for writing’ which seem like permission errors to me, but I don’t know at this point.

I can do this just fine from another linux machine, but not from Windows using Cygwin.

By: Wunar

Wunar — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:47:10 +0000

Well, it’s not exactly like it *should* be followed. It’s still
[scp://user@host/] [path] syntax, so you can use
scp://user@host/.vimrc perfectly fine, and it will take .vimrc from user’s home folder (as path = .vimrc), and scp://user@host//etc/profile will specify full path to /etc/profile.

By: mshade

mshade — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:56:14 +0000

Thanks for the detail, Wunar — And actually, omitting the : isn’t all that’s necessary. Hostname should be followed by two //s. Don’t know how I missed that! Thanks!

example:
vim scp://user@host//home/user/example.txt

By: Wunar

Wunar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:55:21 +0000

After seeing weird errors, it occured to me that second colon in the address needs to be omitted, and used it only to specify the port for the scp connection, not like scp utility,

scp://user@host/foo/bar.txt
and
scp://user@host:9922/foo/bar.txt