Re: netrw Support on Windows

Ben Fritz wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2:02 am, "Mathew Brown"<mathewbr...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering what the best way to get the netrw plugin
>> (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075) working on
>> Windows. From my understanding, it depends on client-side executables
>> to run. So, is it by installing a minimal version of Cygwin? Are
>> there any other alternatives? Primarily, I will using the scp and
>> sftp options, although I may use others down the road. Thanks for
>> your help.
>>
> You should be aware if you are not, that the netrw plugin ships with
> Vim in the standard runtime.
>
> You are correct though, that it depends on external programs. I'm not
> sure of the best place to get these. I've been annoyed a couple times
> that accessing web content does not work in Windows through netrw
> (which depends on wget, I believe).
>
>
Ben: perhaps reading :help netrw-externapp will help you. wget is
only one of several applications netrw can use.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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