1) in my experience of remote paring, the vim flow definitely helped a lot because it saved the trouble caused by screen switching and tabbing different window,

1) in my experience of remote paring, the vim flow definitely helped a lot because it saved the trouble caused by screen switching and tabbing different window, which can easily lose the flow for the peer. 2) I think TDD is essential; it is usually difficult to follow driver's thought process without the TDD work flow, and if the peer lost the logical flow, most of paring time will be wasted. TDD made it possible for both sides to divide task into small problems and incrementally solve each small chunk.