Can vim be configured to use an alternate ftp client

Question

This post is related to a SuperUser post I entered recently. I am re-asking the question here, because I feel either rebuilding vim or advanced configuration may be involved.

I'm trying to configure vim to use passive ftp when I enter an edit command like

: e ftp://ics@steamboy//home/ics/.bashrc

Right now I get an error indicating our Kaspersky anti-virus is preventing active ftp.

I believe that vim 7.4 has ftp already built into it. I have searched vim help to see if there are variables that can be set to use a a different command line ftp client, like passive_ftp. I could not find anything except to set an scp client.

Any suggestions to fix this or information links would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Vim does not have ftp client built in, AFAIK; it's all netrw calling various *NIX utilities. As for variables... in the same table where there's the variable for scp client, there's also variables for all other protocols' clients:

:help g:netrw_ftp_cmd

So basically you could do this in your .vimrc:

let g:netrw_ftp_cmd="your_command --your_switches"