Combine zipfile: with scp: to open remote zip with vim?

Question

Both

vim scp://remotehost///path/to/file.txt

and

vim zipfile:/path/to/file.zip::path/inside/zip/file.txt

work for opening either remote or a file inside zip archives.

What if one needs both at the same time?

I've tried

vim scp://remotehost///path/to/file.zip

this does not open zip content as in case of local zip file.

neither of

vim zipfile:scp://remotehost///path/to/file.zip::/path/in/zip/file.txt
vim scp://remotehost//zipfile:/path/to/file.zip::/path/in/zip/file.txt

work

(How) is it possible to combine zipfile: and scp: in one command to open file inside the remote zip file?

Answer 1

Both plugins (netrw and zip) use autocmds on custom file prefixes to detect special file systems (remote and zip, respectively), and then delegate the reading and writing to custom plugin code. I think the combination does not work because both use the same integration point, but I think the integrations could be extended so that some kind of syntax would work (but it could be messy).

Fortunately, both plugins are maintained by the same author (DrChip), so please suggest this enhancement to the author (his email address can be found in the plugin files and documentation, e.g. under :help pi_netrw).