I tested this and I think that in your syntax above, "path" refers to the absolute path with leading slashes. When I substitute an absolute path including the leading slash for the word "path" in your above command line example, it works correctly and opens the remote file.
Working command line example: gvim -f sftp://SERVER//home/USER/FILE.txt In this case, "path" is "/home/USER/FILE.txt". That being said, does this still indicate a vim bug? -- Nautilus Passes Relative Path to vim for Remote Files https://launchpad.net/bugs/46209 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
