I very recently set out to start bringing my vimrc with me when logging into remote hosts and came up with this. Host * !github.com RemoteCommand echo -e

I very recently set out to start bringing my vimrc with me when logging into remote hosts and came up with this. Host * !github.com RemoteCommand echo -e "syntax enable\nset ts=2\nset sw=2\n" > ~/.tmp_vimrc && bash -c 'set -a; vi() { vim -u ~/.tmp_vimrc "$@"; }; set +a;bash -l' RequestTTY yes It gets ugly when you get a lot of options in there. It's possible to just curl or scp something in place via RemoteCommand above, or `source: https://foo.io/vimrc` https://foo.io/vimrc` but my security paranoia lead me to this instead.