Re: ODB Suite/External Editor Protocol

Hi,

> > > As i understand it some ftp applications (like interarchy) would  
> > > need vim to support it in order to use vim as an external editor.
> >
> > vim can edit documents on ftp servers. Just type
> >     :e ftp://yourhost.com/yourfile.html
> > , edit your document and save your changes with
> >     :w
> > . Perhaps this helps you as well?
> >
> > Bye,
> > Nico
> Remote Editing through vim works to some extent, but i find it more  
> efficient to use a good ftpclient for browsing the ftp/sftp/webdav- 
> servers and handeling passwords.

I understand that you may prefer a GUI ftp client. That said, you can  
also browse remote directories with
    :Nread ftp://www.bla.com/
and if you put a line reading
    machine www.bla.com login <your-login-name> password "<your- 
password>"
into a file called .netrc in your home directory, Vim won't ask you  
for passwords either. Furthermore, the command line ftp clients won't  
ask you for password either (just make sure your .netrc is only  
readable by you).

Bye,
Nico