GVim for Remote Development

Question

I've adopted vim as my goto editor of choice over the past few weeks and have really enjoyed it. However for work I often must log into a remote server located in Asia (I'm on the eastern US coastline) and I find using gvim (and really any GUI app) to be very slow. I have looked up some configurations to ssh which has made gvim operate at a better speed, but for the most part it still isn't fast enough. I was wondering if there are any other options I can use to speed up my connection and/or if Vim has remote deployment capability (ie. I edit files locally and they are synced to the Asia machine). Thanks a lot!

For sake of coverage here is my ssh config, it's added a nice boost.

Host abc.host.hosting.com
Compression Yes
ForwardX11 yes
Ciphers blowfish-cbc,arcfour

http://stackoverflow.com/a/25183709/1890567 you can also use the urls with `e` — FDinoff, Aug 12 '14 at 18:02
Similar question with lots of tips: http://stackoverflow.com/q/605263/1427295 — Brett Y, Aug 20 '14 at 03:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '14 at 15:04

Instead of controlling Vim through the laggy SSH connection, rather just fetch and update the file(s) themselves, and launch Vim locally.

Vim ships with a plugin called netrw which will allow you to do this.

vim scp://hostname/path/to/file

Will copy the file to you local machine and on save reupload it.

Take a look at netrw's documentation :h netrw

GVim for Remote Development

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