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vim's sftp plugin remote editing file

There is a way to use Sublime Text's SFTP plugin to remote editing a file. Because my network is slow, when I want to ssh to the server to use vim to edit codes, it will be very slow. I tried vim's plugin called "netrw", but I don't like it. Could you suggest another way to use vim to edit remote server's file without delay?

Solution

  • There's nothing "user-unfriendly" in:

    :e scp://foo@bar.baz//path/to/dir/
(edit file)
<C-^>
(edit another file)
<C-^>
(edit another file)
<C-^>
(rinse, repeat)

    You get a file listing, you pick a file to edit, you go back to that file listing, you pick another file… simple.

    Other options:

    • use a dedicated SFTP client to deal with the networking part,
    • use Git/Subversion/Mercurial/$VCS
    • mount your SSH file system