Re: Issue with netrw copy and move

Bart Baker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using gVim 7.3 with netrw v142 on Windows XP SP3. I am not able to
> copy or move files within netrw.
>
> After marking a target (mt) and file (mf) and attempting to move (mm),
> I receive the following message:
>
> **error** (netrw) command<move> is not executable!
>
> Using the same procedure but instead attempting to copy (mc), the
> procedure fails, but I do not receive a message.
>
> Dropping into the source code, it looks like netrw is attempting to
> use the MS-DOS commands "move" and "copy" to move the files. The whole
> reason that I switched from NERDTree back to netrw was because I
> thought copy functionality worked.
>
> When I echo the vimscript command 'executable("move")' or
> 'executable("copy")' within gVim or Vim, both of these return '0'.
>
> Vim does not recognize these as valid command line commands, even
> though they can be used in the windows command prompt. I also made a
> related discovery that these old MS-DOS commands do not show up in my
> path.
>
Hello!

v145a of netrw (available from my website as
http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW) has the following
variables:

g:netrw_localmovecmd
g:netrw_localcopycmd
g:netrw_localrmdir
g:netrw_localmkdir

(v144 and earlier style names were in the format g:netwr_local_movecmd,
etc)

You might want to consider setting these with whatever works for you.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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