On 02/01/11 19:05, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Hi,
when I log into a remote machine with ssh -X and start a local gvim
session, i can see the local gvim with:
u...@remote$ gvim --serverlist
GVIM
To control that it is really my local gvim session, I repeat it after
closing the local gvim and the serverlist is empty.
when I want to open a remote file with the --remote option
u...@remote$ gvim --remote test.py
an empty file gets loaded in my local gvim. Is this a bug? If not, is
there a similar way to edit remote files locally? I know that it's
possible to use :e scp:u...@remote/path/to/file but I find it more
convenient to call vim direclty within the remote filesystem.
Cheers,
Bastian
T'ain't a bug, it's a feature:
1) see :help remote.txt
--remote and friends pass messages between the current Vim (the client)
and another Vim instance (the server) which may even be running on the
same machine.
2) see
:help gui-fork
:help -f
:help 'guioptions'
when starting the GUI, it forks away from its shell, launching the GUI
as a new process, unless you start gvim with the -f (or --nofork)
command-line switch, or unless 'guioptions' includes the f flag at the
instant the GUI is started (e.g. because you had "if has('gui') | set
go+=f | endif", without the double quotes but with the single ones, in
your vimrc)
To edit remote files in the local Vim, see :help pi_netrw.txt -- as
apparently you know.
To edit remote files with a Vim running on a remote machine, you should
be able to do it by starting a console-Vim (not gvim) instance within
your ssh (or whatever) remote shell, provided of course that Vim is
installed on the remote machine.
To edit remote files with *gvim* running on the remote machine, your
remote gvim must have access to an X11 (or Windows or whatever)
graphical display server displaying on the display you're looking at,
not on some display or pseudo-display located at the remote site.
Best regards,
Tony.
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