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Oscar Godson
Oscar Godson

Reputation: 32726

Remote vim isn't finding files

Trying to edit files locally to remove the lag and not needing to sync my vim config. I can't figure out why this isn't working at all. If I do

vim scp://user@host/home/user/project/

I get

:!scp -q 'user@host/home/user/project/' 
'/var/folders/fm/vyvfk53d2b5gf63m7dnv3gqc0000gn/T/vGhn9Hf/0.txt'
"/var/folders/fm/vyvfk53d2b5gf63m7dnv3gqc0000gn/T/vGhn9Hf/0.txt" [New File]
Press ENTER or type command to continue

If I run just normal SCP commands they download just fine:

scp -r user@host:home/user/project/ project/
foo.txt                        100%   20     0.0KB/s   00:00

Upvotes: 1

Views: 129

Answers (1)

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 25966

You need to specify two slashes // as manual describes:

vim scp://[email protected]//path/to/document

So for you use case:

vim scp://user@host//home/user/project/

but anyway with scp, you need to specify the file you want to edit, not only directory you want to browse through.

For directories, you need to use sftp, which has the ability to browse through the directories:

vim sftp://user@host//home/user/project/

Upvotes: 2

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