Mike Gerwitz » ftp http://mikegerwitz.com Free Software Hacker Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:15:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Dealing With VIM: FTP Disconnects http://mikegerwitz.com/2008/11/18/dealing-with-vim-ftp-disconnects/ http://mikegerwitz.com/2008/11/18/dealing-with-vim-ftp-disconnects/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:44 +0000 Mike Gerwitz http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/11/18/dealing-with-vim-ftp-disconnects/ VIM and FTP haven’t really been the greatest couple in my experience. While it does work, it tends to give me disconnected errors after being idle a while rather than handling it itself. Usually, attempting the operation again works just fine. However, there are times where not even that works and I keep receiving the disconnected error (this often happens after the net went down and I restarted the interface).

When I was using Gentoo, and hadn’t installed the ftp command-line application yet, I noticed VIM complained about not having it. So I figured, what if I killed ftp when VIM was complaining about connection problems:

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killall ftp

When you do so, VIM may display a message stating that a process was killed. That’s a good thing. Attempt your operation again and everything should work properly. This saves a lot of time – not having to restart VIM (especially if you work with as many splits and tabs as I do; saving the session doesn’t do much justice).

Hope this little trick is of some help.

Note from the future me: Rather than using FTP to edit your files, I would recommend using a version control system, such as Git. Edit your files locally and push them to your remote repository.

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