Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
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Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
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Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
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#3Discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406145
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#4This is pretty cool. I probably don't have much real use case for it because this is basically how I already do things when I use nfs or sshfs to bring the work to my local machine while keeping the files remote, but with more work involved.
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#5Discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406145
It's quite fitting as a vim using HAM (with a callsign username), that the top comment on that thread is also a HAM saying how you can also do this in emacs. The world changes all around us, and yet it's always the same.
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#6If I’m reading this right, it’s “open a local vi(m) on a remote file”, by invoking a remote command. Is that right?
I’m wondering how it’s different in effect to just using
vim sftp://host/path/to/fileRe: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#7Discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406145
And the top comment is about Emacs. Yep, that's a vi post alright.
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#8If I’m reading this right, it’s “open a local vi(m) on a remote file”, by invoking a remote command. Is that right? I’m wondering how it’s different in effect to just using vim sftp://host/path/to/file
does sftp require configuration beyond what you've already got working if you're ssh'd in?
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#9If I’m reading this right, it’s “open a local vi(m) on a remote file”, by invoking a remote command. Is that right? I’m wondering how it’s different in effect to just using vim sftp://host/path/to/file
does sftp require configuration beyond what you've already got working if you're ssh'd in?
I mean you run that command locally. You aren’t ssh’d in, vim copies the file to a tmp location and you edit it, `:w` writes it back to the remote.
Re: Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
does sftp require configuration beyond what you've already got working if you're ssh'd in?
I mean you run that command locally. You aren’t ssh’d in, vim copies the file to a tmp location and you edit it, `:w` writes it back to the remote.
ngl didn't know vim supported that so conveniently