How can I stop 'Obtaining <filename>'?

Question

I am new to vim, and I use netrw as a file explorer.

Frequently hit shift-P to open a file in a buffer. Sometimes I accidentally hit shift-O, and netrw will start obtaining the file. How do I cancel cancel that?

Two changes I see happen are a new split opens with the below message

warning (netrw) cannot determine method (format: protocol://[user@]hostname[:port]/[path])

Which I can close. But also I see a message in the status/message bar. What I really want to do is get rid of that message: Obtaining index.html

The above documentation, suggests that the message will end when the transfer completes. So maybe I need to cancel the transfer. I scanned/searched the above documentation for the words cancel and transfer and found nothing to suggest a fix.

Answer 1

Just call

:set statusline&

Answer 2

I'm using netrw v155d; I don't see the split taking place (just the error message, which a :q handles just fine). Perhaps you should try updating your netrw: http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW