JDS wrote:

> But if you substitute "Gvim" for "Gedit" in the above steps, IT DOES NOT
> WORK. In fact, Gvim will not even open the file, and says something
> similar to:
>
> "smb://vmware@vmware-server/www/TextFile.txt" [New DIRECTORY] 0,0-1 All

If you mount the samba share instead, then you can use any tool you want to
modify files.


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JDS wrote:

> Has anyone gotten Vim (specifically gVim) to work transparently with
> network URLs?

See :help netrw

> For example, using gedit, I can do this:
>
> 1) Browse in Nautilus to a SMB network share, "smb://server-name/sharename"
>
> 2) Right-click a text file and choose "Open with Text Editor" (which opens
> the file in Gedit)
>
> 3) make changes in gedit, and SAVE. That's the important bit -- Gedit has
> built-in Gnome network transparency and will save to SFTP:// URLs, SMB://,
> FTP://, etc.

vim doesn't use Gnome's virtual file system but has some network support
build in.




Florian
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On 2007-10-03 18:33, JDS wrote:
> Has anyone gotten Vim (specifically gVim) to work transparently with
> network URLs? For example, using gedit, I can do this:
>
> 1) Browse in Nautilus to a SMB network share, "smb://server-name/sharename"
>
> 2) Right-click a text file and choose "Open with Text Editor" (which opens
> the file in Gedit)
>
> 3) make changes in gedit, and SAVE. That's the important bit -- Gedit has
> built-in Gnome network transparency and will save to SFTP:// URLs, SMB://,
> FTP://, etc.
>
> But if you substitute "Gvim" for "Gedit" in the above steps, IT DOES NOT
> WORK. In fact, Gvim will not even open the file, and says something
> similar to:
>
> "smb://vmware@vmware-server/www/TextFile.txt" [New DIRECTORY] 0,0-1 All
>
> It thinks the file name is a "New DIRECTORY". WTF?
>
> A few years ago there was a gnome-vfs plugin or component being built for
> Gvim but that appears to have died.
> (http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/gnome-vim/)
>
> Heeeeellllp!!
>
> Thanks!

If you look at /etc/auto.master :

#
# $Id: auto.master,v 1.4 2005/01/04 14:36:54 raven Exp $
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
#/smb /etc/auto.smb
#/misc /etc/auto.misc
/net /etc/auto.net

(since I never use any win* junk, I only use /net )

You can use your automounter to fix this transparent for ANY application.

Just enable it, and you can just edit /smb/server-name/share/anything.
Just as /net for NFS
birre@bblin3:~> ls /net/bblin1/srv/ftp/pub
opensuse tracker.rpm


/bb