J A G P R E E T wrote:
Hi There,
I work on windows OS and want to access(read/write) to remote
server(UNIX).
From the vim site I came to know this is possible, but how to use it is
outa my mind.
I check the two plugins netrw and vimball;
I'm not getting much understanding regarding these two plugins and not much
help available for these two.
Can I get much detailed document to get more understanding on the same.
To get an up-to-date version of netrw, you'll also need to get an
up-to-date version of vimball. So:
1) Get an up-to-date version of vimball:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1502
-or- http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimBall
(the mysite.verizon.net one will be the more recent version)
2) Remove the old vimball plugin and install the new one:
Linux:
cd /usr/local/share/vim/vim70
/bin/rm plugin/vimball*.vim autoload/vimball*.vim doc/pi_vimball.txt
mv (wherever it was downloaded)/vimball.tar.gz .
gunzip vimball.tar.gz
tar -xvf vimball.tar
Windows:
Under Windows, check your runtimepath to determine where your
vim 7.0's runtime directories are:
vim
:echo &rtp
:q
The first directory is likely your personal plugins directory,
the second one is your vim system directory.
cd (to your vim system directory)
del plugin\vimballPlugin.vim
del autoload\vimball.vim
del doc\pi_vimball.txt
ren (wherever)\vimball.tar.gz vimball.tar.gz
gunzip vimball.tar.gz
tar -xvf vimball.tar
3) Remove system version of netrw:
Linux:
cd /usr/local/share/vim/vim70
/bin/rm plugin/netrw*.vim autoload/netrw*.vim doc/pi_netrw.txt
Windows:
cd (to your vim system directory)
del plugin\netrwPlugin.vim
del autoload\netrw.vim
del doc\pi_netrw.txt
4) Install an up-to-date version of netrw:
vim netrw.vba.gz
:so %
:q
Subsequently, whenever you wish to update netrw, all you'll need to do is to
a) obtain a newer netrw
b) perform step #4
Now, as to documentation: :help vimball and :help netrw have 129
lines and 1928 lines
of help, respectively. Using vimball is particularly simple; see step
#4 above. Using
netrw is reasonably simple:
vim scp://somehost/path/to/file.ext
would invoke netrw to do the work via scp. Netrw supports a number of
protocols, including
scp, rcp, ftp, etc. I suggest reading :help netrw-start .
Regards,
Chip Campbell
