Friday, February 22, 2013

Re: Help regarding netrw, sorry if this is not the right way to ask for help.

On 21/02/13 06:22, Charles E Campbell wrote:
> Manas K wrote:
>> Hello Dr.Chip!
>>
>> I tried out that version to the same effect. I did post earlier on the
>> vim mailing list and a gentleman (Tony) confirmed my suspicion that
>> once a directory was opened by using the direct path, any other
>> directory I further try to navigate will need to have a "/" after it,
>> which somehow sub-directories don't show.
>>
> You can also try two commands provided by netrw:
>
> gf : treat string under cursor as a file's name
> gd: treat string under cursor as a directory's name
>
> Netrw has a variable that may help you:
>
> g:netrw_ftp_list_cmd
>
> See :help g:netrw_ftp_list_cmd . The point is: netrw expects the
> listing delivered by ftp to include the name followed by "/" in the case
> of directories. Try using ftp directly; does
>
> ls -lF
>
> show directories with trailing slashes? It could either be the site
> that's causing trouble, your ftp doesn't pass along options, etc. If you
> find some magic option that gets those slashes, modify the variable.
>
> Regards,
> C Campbell
>

ah, interesting: thanks Dr. Chip.

With my version of ftp (which may or may not act like the OP's one),
"ls" gives a long listing without directory slashes, but "ls -lF"
outputs the same listing with the slashes. Thanks!

Best regards,
Tony.
--
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number. You're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash
and another number."
-- James Estes

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