How can I deploy my .vimrc on Divio-Cloud to use with a ssh connection?

Question

I want to make some changes on my project with vim through a ssh-connection to Divio-Cloud. How can I deploy my .vimrc to be used by the Vim on Divio-Cloud. Till now it just uses a bare-bonded version without code-highlighting etc.

Answer 1

If you use SSH to connect to Divio-Cloud, and open Vim there, you can use SCP to copy your local ~/.vimrc to the remote host, and then restart Vim there. (With an active SSH connection, and the appropriate ControlMaster and ControlPath configuration in ~/.ssh/config, the connection will even be shared and you won't be prompted for a password for the remote copy.)

You can also use other (SSH-based) synchronization methods, like rsync or unison to keep your configuration up-to-date and in sync.

Alternatively, you could use Vim on your local system, and open the remote files in it, via the :help netrw plugin that ships with Vim: :edit scp://hostname/path/to/file.