Hi all I tried out Vim 6 with the 'netrw.vim' plugin to edit files remotely. It works beautifully for editing via ftp, but I did hit a snag .. I want to use it for editing Zope objects. Zope supports this via both ftp and WebDAV. (To support WebDAV from Vim, maybe the 'cadaver' commandline WebDAV client would be useful http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ ). Anyway, so I do: :e ftp://blommie:10021/standard_html_header edit a document, and save successfully. This is the trace of the successful save in my log: 192.168.3.44357 ==> 220 blommie FTP server (Medusa Async V1.13 [experimental]) ready. 192.168.3.44357 <== USER jean 192.168.3.44357 ==> 331 Password required. 192.168.3.44357 <== PASS <password> 192.168.3.44357 ==> 230 Login successful. 192.168.3.44357 <== TYPE A 192.168.3.44357 ==> 200 Type set to ASCII. 192.168.3.44357 <== PORT 192,168,3,4,17,6 192.168.3.44357 ==> 200 PORT command successful. 192.168.3.44357 <== STOR standard_html_header 192.168.3.44357 ==> 150 Opening ASCII connection for standard_html_header 192.168.3.44357 ==> 226 Transfer complete. 192.168.3.44357 <== QUIT 192.168.3.44357 ==> 221 Goodbye. Then I try to edit a Python script, which is handled a bit differently by Zope: the file returned by ftp starts with a magic comment block which contains the script properties. This is parsed by Zope upon upload. However, this should all be transparent from the ftp point of view. Unfortunately this is not the case: 192.168.3.44395 ==> 220 blommie FTP server (Medusa Async V1.13 [experimental]) ready. 192.168.3.44395 <== USER jean 192.168.3.44395 ==> 331 Password required. 192.168.3.44395 <== PASS <password> 192.168.3.44395 ==> 230 Login successful. 192.168.3.44395 <== TYPE A 192.168.3.44395 ==> 200 Type set to ASCII. 192.168.3.44395 <== PORT 192,168,3,4,17,44 192.168.3.44395 ==> 200 PORT command successful. 192.168.3.44395 <== STOR feko_usa/interface/findUser 192.168.3.44395 ==> 150 Opening ASCII connection for feko_usa/interface/findUser 192.168.3.44395 ==> 426 Error creating file. 192.168.3.44395 <== QUIT 192.168.3.44395 ==> 221 Goodbye. I've also tried (successfully, in the end) with this Vim/Python combination: http://www.zope.org/Members/zxc/vimFTPExplorer which is based on: http://www.freespeech.org/aziz/vim/ which is included in the Vim 6 distribution. In that case, the fix was to change from ASCII-mode transfer to Binary, but that happened in Python: [jean@blommie vim]$ diff ftpExplorer.vim patched-ftpExplorer.vim 144a145,146

bufname=vim.current.buffer.name vim.command('echo "Current buffer: %s"' %bufname)

158c160 < ftp.storlines('stor %s' %filename, fi) ---

ftp.storbinary('stor %s' %filename, fi, 8192)

I did change 'netrw.vim' to transfer in binary mode, but it didn't help: 192.168.3.44399 ==> 220 blommie FTP server (Medusa Async V1.13 [experimental]) ready. 192.168.3.44399 <== USER jean 192.168.3.44399 ==> 331 Password required. 192.168.3.44399 <== PASS <password> 192.168.3.44399 ==> 230 Login successful. 192.168.3.44399 <== TYPE I 192.168.3.44399 ==> 200 Type set to Binary. 192.168.3.44399 <== PORT 192,168,3,4,17,48 192.168.3.44399 ==> 200 PORT command successful. 192.168.3.44399 <== STOR feko_usa/interface/findUser 192.168.3.44399 ==> 150 Opening Binary connection for feko_usa/interface/findUser 192.168.3.44399 ==> 426 Error creating file. 192.168.3.44399 <== QUIT 192.168.3.44399 ==> 221 Goodbye. Any clues as to how to make everything work? Any chance of making 'explorer.vim' and 'netrw.vim' work transparently together? Regards, Jean