Vim can open files remotely by ssh, copying the file to the remote server on each write. To edit the file example.com:foo.txt, do: :e ssh://example.com/foo.

Vim can open files remotely by ssh, copying the file to the remote server on each write. To edit the file example.com:foo.txt, do: :e ssh://example.com/foo.txt It should use your default ssh config/setup/etc.