Using PuTTY pscp with Vim

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Tip: #1181 - Using PuTTY pscp with Vim

Created: March 21, 2006 18:19 Complexity: basic Author: Pete Johns Version: 6.0 Karma: 22/7 Imported from: Tip#1181

Have you ever wished that you could compare a text file on your Windoze machine with one on your FreeBSD{{|}}Redhat box? Now you can!

In addition to Vim (which you'll have anyway) 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:

"""" 20060318 paj using PSCP on Windows. N.B: 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

For further information on Vim's scp capabilities, see:

he scp

--paj

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Comments

Hi,

This doesn't seem to work for me because pscp seems to put the remote host 'foo--AT--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?

Thx!

decuir--AT--gmail.com , March 28, 2006 9:07

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I have exactly the same problem. Can't get rid of the single quotes.

dvdm--AT----AT--xs4all.nl , April 12, 2006 5:01

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Looks like the single quotes is added only in vim7.0, when I switched back to 6.2 it works.

Satish Kharat , July 11, 2006 8:47

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There's a hack I found on Google which makes pscp work with Vim7:

In the netrw.vim file (normally vim70/autoload/netrw.vim), search for the following line (normally line 557) and remove single quotes: exe g:netrw_silentxfer."!".g:netrw_scp_cmd.useport." '".g:netrw_machine.":".escape(b:netrw_fname,g:netrw_fname_escape)."' ".tmpfile

It works perfectly for me! :)

Thanks for HBTaylor! [http://groups.google.hu/group/comp.editors/browse_thread/thread/adf797ee3e934037/83a652699e8e38ad?lnk=st&q=vim+pscp&rnum=1#83a652699e8e38ad]

vass.laszlo--AT--altair.hu , September 19, 2006 2:23

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