@conorh
Other protocols are also possible, e.g. you can edit files via scp

vim scp://user@remoteserver.example.org//home/user/remotefile.txt

#vim #ssh #scp

@conorh Just tried this, it's perfect for testing thanks!

@conorh Xe are earnestly giddy at this revelation. Sounds great for xir journaling needs.

@conorh *tries it*

Holy shit.

@conorh

it works very well with sftp protocol too !

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/vim-is-magic-with-sftp.md

@conorh `vim foo.txt.gz` transparently decompresses the file, then recompresses on save. `vim bar.tar.gz` or `vim baz.zip` shows a list of the files in the archive, so you can choose which ones to edit tranparently.

@conorh @jpmens The curl project is always happy to help. 😌

@conorh vim supremacy 💪

@conorh Emacs can do this for FTP and ssh: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html

@conorh I need to have more lunches with people who introduce features of vim

@conorh presumably I could have a file locally with an auth token that it can read from when doing a put request? 🤔

@conorh
My server logs gave me a wget entry. Nevertheless 🤯

@conorh@mastodon.sdf.org LMFAO

@conorh
Alas full vim doesn't seem that common. No idea what arch uses (vi is linked to ed somehow) and Debian uses vim.tiny which doesn't have any of this.

@conorh can you configure an authorization header?

@conorh That's indeed the appropriate protocol for webdav servers (btw, other editors do the same, e.g.: KDE's Kate also supports out-of-box working with remote files. I use this a lot for work. One more reason why I prefer working on Linux)