VIM support to upload via SFTP

Question

I am used to Sublime's plugin that let's you do a mapping between your local project and a remote project. By doing so, when you are done editing a file, you can do a right click and "Upload file" action which automatically updates the file in the remote server.

I am wondering what would be the best way to do this while programming with VIM. I am looking for an easy way to be able to map a local project to a remote one and be able to upload the file easily.

Thanks

Answer 1

If all you want is to edit files on a remote server, try vim's netrw feature:

vim scp://you@yourserver//path/to/directory/

Edit a file directly:

vim scp://you@yourserver//path/to/directory/somefile.txt

Or if you are already in vim, hit ESC, then type:

:e scp://you@yourserver//path/to/directory/

This assumes that:

1. you have ssh installed (usually the case for Linux or OSX; if you are on Windows then it depends).
2. you have ssh access to the server via some convenient method (sshagent and keys)