On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Jakub Jelen wrote:
I'm using scp: a lot to edit remote files with vim and I'm pretty sure that many remote admins are doing the same.
So I'm wondering how this change will affect my use case scenario and if you have considered it when moving to sftp.
That is a good question!
When I try to use scp://host/file I am getting errors that vim is trying to use `rcp` command (yuck!). But using the same with sftp://host/file works like a charm.
I believe vim is using just scp to fetch the file so if the connection to the server will work also with sftp, it should continue to work (but I recommend using sftp protocol anyway).
The simplest way to try is to try with sftp:// or try the previously mentioned package, but my best bet is that it will keep on working as before (even though I never used this inside of vim up until today).
Indeed it does, I wasn't aware that vim supports sftp as well.
Thank you for the prompt reply
Walter
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