Friday, August 7, 2015

Copying files with Vim's netrw on Mac OS X is broken

Hi, can anyone help me this issue with netrw?

To copy a file in Vim using netrw I have to following these steps:

1. Select the destination directory (using mt)
2. Select the file to be copied (using mf)
3. Proceed with copying (using mc)

The commands to use in netrw are:

- mt run while cursor is on top of the directory intended to be the destination
- mf run while cursor is on top of the file intended to be copied
- mc run while cursor is on top of the destination ("marked target") directory

If I do this on an example project, Vim will display something like:

Copy foo.md to : bar.md

Suggesting it's about to do what I want it to, but upon confirming this I get the following error:

1 **error** (netrw) tried using g:netrw_localcopycmd<cp>; it doesn't work!

I've read online that netrw is considered pretty buggy and so there doesn't appear to be much documentation or notes on how to resolve this issue.

I should be clear and state that I'm not interested in using NERDTree.

Thanks

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