[Bug 1852927] Re: Trying to save a file over SSH with GVim doesn't work; fails with "cannot open file for writing"

[Adam Novak]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1813679 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813679

Looks like I reported this already ages ago, but as far as I can tell
nobody noticed.

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Title:
  Trying to save a file over SSH with GVim doesn't work; fails with
  "cannot open file for writing"

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  To reproduce:

  1. Have an SSH server you have access to. It could even be localhost.

  2. Open "Files" (Nautilus), hit Ctrl+L to get the URL bar, and type in
  "ssh://your.server", and hit enter.

  3. Authenticate to the server if necessary. It should now be mounted.

  4. Create a new text file with Nautilus on the server.

  5. Open that file in GVim. If GVim is not your default editor you need
  to right-click and choose it in "Open With Other Application".

  6. Add some content to the file.

  7. Try to save the file.

  Expected Behavior:

  The file should save successfully.

  Observed behavior:

  The file is not saved. Instead, GVim reports an error:

  "/run/user/1000/gvfs/host=your.server/path/to/your/file.txt: E212:
  Can't open file for writing"

  If I navigate to that local mount directory in Bash, the file is
  there, with writable permissions, and I can edit it with e.g. nano. I
  also have no trouble wditing it with gedit.

  Trying to edit it with CLI "vim" produces the same E212 error.

  This problem started fro me with Ubuntu 18.04 and Vim 8. If I build
  Vim 7 from source, I don't have the problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: vim 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-70.79-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-70-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Nov 17 11:11:55 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-06 (832 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: vim
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-29 (537 days ago)

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