Does MobaXTerm's vim support netrw?

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I'm trying to use my MobaXTerm vim to access a remote file using netrw as follows:

vim scp://my_username@my_server//path/file.txt

I have password-less login set up (through .ssh / rsa_id, etc.).

This works fine from my OS X machine running vim 7.3, but not from MobaXTerm vim (also 7.3).

Does MobaXTerm's vim support netrw?

@Rich I have not -- actually, when I try to use :help at all in MobaXTerm vim, I get E433: No tags file :/ — Chris Gregg, Feb 5 '16 at 17:26
Ah. Here you go, then: vimhelp.appspot.com/pi_netrw.txt.html#netrw-ssh-hack I'd suggest trying to get it working with a password first, and then having a go at that. I guess check scp works in MobaXTerm outside of Vim, too. — Rich, Feb 5 '16 at 17:49
@Rich Thanks for the link! I'll see what I can figure out. I also need to figure out why there isn't any /usr/share/vim/doc folder (where the help file would live). I should add: scp works fine from the MobaXTerm terminal. — Chris Gregg, Feb 5 '16 at 17:52

user21497 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-11 02:38:33Z

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A couple of things to consider:

answered Feb 11 '16 at 2:38

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Hmm -- g:netrw_scp_cmd isn't set. Tried the full scp path (/bin/scp) but it simply tried to open a new file on my local system (as it did with scp alone) – Chris Gregg Feb 12 '16 at 3:31
The g:netrw_scp_cmd should be set after you've opened a netrw buffer, or if you've set it in your .vimrc. Another thing: try :help netrw-debug and get a trace of what's actually happening. – user21497 Feb 15 '16 at 16:24

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