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Ask HN: Vim and Ftp - How to do it in 2013?
1 point by sirwitti on Feb 5, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I'm a vim user for some years now and mostly edit remote files using sshfs (or curlftps, which is unsuably slow). I researched for a while on google but could not find anything that's usable for work.

What I'd like to have is not too complicated: - saving ftp connections / no need to enter the ftp password. a master password would be ok, though. - a decent way to discover files. something compatible with command-t would be perfect but the regular way of opening files would be fine too. - halfway decent performance: saving a file should take less than 10s

How do you fellow vim users work with remote files when ssh is not available? Thank you all, Martin



Something like rsync should work good, but it's not available for FTP, but there are some options: http://serverfault.com/questions/24622/how-to-use-rsync-over...


I don't use it myself but isn't this what netrw does?

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075


you're right, but e.g. to open a file without knowing the exact name you have to type :e ftp://[user]@hostname/path/ and then select the directory and file, which is a lot slower and more complicated than the traditional way of opening files.




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