Editing Using PuTTY pscp with Vim

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|author=Pete Johns
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OK GOod,

Have you ever wished that you could compare a text file on your Windows machine with one on your FreeBSD/Redhat box? Now you can!

In addition to Vim, you'll need PSCP (which you can download from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) and diff.exe. If you are using Pageant you will not even have to worry about passwords.

Add to your vimrc:
<code>
<pre>
" paj using PSCP on Windows. Works best with Pageant.
if ($OS =~ "Windows")
  let g:netrw_scp_cmd="\"c:\\Program Files\\PuTTY\\pscp.exe\" -q -batch"
endif
C:\>vim -d \path\to\vimfiles\colors\primitive.vim scp://user@my.host/path/to/.vim/colors/primitive.vim
</pre>
</code>
==References==
*{{help|scp}}

==Comments==
This doesn't seem to work for me because pscp seems to put the remote host 'foo@bar.com:/dir' in single quotes. Then the command line fails.

Is there any way to force netrw not to use single quotes in the command line?

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Looks like the single quotes is added only in vim 7.0, when I switched back to 6.2 it works.

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There's a hack I found on Google which makes pscp work with Vim 7:

In the netrw.vim file (normally vim70/autoload/netrw.vim), search for the following line (normally line 557) and remove single quotes:

<pre>
exe g:netrw_silentxfer."!".g:netrw_scp_cmd.useport." '".g:netrw_machine.":".escape(b:netrw_fname,g:netrw_fname_escape)."' ".tmpfile
</pre>

{{Todo}}
Has this been fixed in the current netrw?

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