Victor Hsieh wrote:
On 10/6/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Victor Hsieh wrote:
> With vim 7.0 and netrw.vim version 98, I've encountered a problem
> when trying to "vim http://somewhere/file.txt";. This patch will fix
> the problem:
This would silently let users overwrite their own work that they had not
saved.
I don't think this would be a good idea.
In this case, explicitly open the url via "vim http://..."; can be
detected, and there's no more risk. I suppose this is a possible
solution :)
Netrw uses the trailing slash to determine whether to browse the remote
directory
or to bring it up for editing. Consider ftp://hostname/some/directory/
-- that trailing
slash tells netrw to display directory contents, not attempt to edit a
file called "directory".
Now, http://... normally uses wget, and there's no corresponding wput;
hence, "editing"
an http://... url is a read-only operation. So, if one tries to edit a
"directory" with the
http protocol (ie. wget), netrw does the best it can and brings it up
using ftp. Of course,
ftp is a read and write capable protocol, so one can really edit it.
I know. But I just want to read the html code or so with my favoriate
editor ;) I used to do it with vim6. Actually in most case,
connecting to ftp://somewhere (when open http://somewhere) is not
gonna work.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
Regards,
Vicotr
http://www.example.com/something/
gives you (usually) the default file in the specified directory. Depending on
how the http server is configured, you could get anything. Far from always a
directory listing: e.g., on user sites at my ISP (Belgacom Skynet), if there
is a file named index.html, INDEX.HTML, index.htm or INDEX.HTM you get that,
and if there isn't you are redirected to some Skynet portal. Try the following:
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/
you get index.htm (my Welcome page) but the headers don't
say so
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/
you are redirected first to a page asking you to choose
French or Dutch language, and then to the Skynet homepage
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/imbecile.htm
you get a "real" HTML page, with "Idiots annoy me" in
a variety of languages (i.e. the directory exists).
OTOH,
ftp://www.example.com/something/
(when given to a browser) gives you an FTP directory listing of directory
/something/ at the FTP site www.example.com (provided that there is an FTP
server at that address). Depending on the server, anonymous FTP may or may not
be possible.
Best regards,
Tony.
