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		begriffs on July 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History and Effective Use of Vim Vim can also edit remote files, with its built-in netrw module. It can do ssh, ftp, dav, fetch, http, rcp, rsync. vim scp://remoteuser@server.tld//absolute/path/to/document :help netrw-start

kqr on July 20, 2019 [–]

But will every other Vim plugin (like fuzzy-finding file browsers or whatnot) work with netrw-accessed files as if they were local? Does it trivially do multi-hop SSH through e.g. bastion machines?

I have yet to see something as powerful as tramp for this.

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