Re: netrw and symbolic links

On 07/10/10 03:39, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> ThomasD wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm just discovering Vim's ability to edit files that reside on a
>> remote machine. I wish to run gVim on my Wndows machine, and the files
>> that are locted on a linux machine are accesible by ftp.
>>
>> Everything was working fine, and I was browsing away on the remote
>> machine, when I tried to open a symbolic link. and the browser
>> returned me to my remote home directory. Maybe I should have noticed
>> that the file in question was marked as a directory in the browser.
>>
>> When searching the documentation it seems that the issue has been
>> dealt with, so I'm at a loss.
>>
>> Can anyone point out a solution to editing files pointed to by a
>> symbolic link?
>>
>> BTW, I'm using gVim 7.3.
> The symbolic links mentioned in the documentation (history) refer to
> local symbolic links.
>
> Remote symbolic links are more problematic -- when is the remote link
> pointing to a directory versus pointing to a file? The ftp listing
> itself isn't clear.
>
> Remote directories are probed with directory listing commands; remote
> files are downloaded and made available for local editing, so clearly
> these two operations are quite different. Netrw chooses to treat things
> as files unless there's a trailing "/", which, for symbolically linked
> directories, isn't there, so netrw ends up treating symbolically linked
> directories as files.
>
> One idea would be to always try to change directory and to intercept the
> occasional error to require treating it as a file. Unfortunately this
> means that several transfer requests are being made, which in turn means
> multiple requests for passwords -- which I'm trying to minimize.
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
>

Multiple requests (to the user) for passwords won't happen if the
symlink points to a file or directory on the same server, which is
usually the case, see ":help netrw-login".

Best regards,
Tony.
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