Using GVim on Windows to edit remote Linux files?

Question

Is it possible to use gvim to edit remote Linux files if I am running Windows?

To elaborate, I would like to connect to the Linux server via Putty and then use my local gvim instance to edit the files on the server -- Is this possible?

It seems x11 forwarding (via xming?) might be the solution but I cannot get it to work.

The remote server runs Debian; my local machine is Win7

Answer 1

An officemate of mine used something like this a while back, but I've never tried it. I prefer to just ssh to the machine in question and fire up vim.

Have you seen this page? It seems to be what you're looking for.

Answer 2

You don't say what protocol you're using to access the files via putty, but odds are that winscp will support what you want. Check out http://winscp.net

Answer 3

This should fix you up:

let g:netrw_cygwin = 0
let g:netrw_ssh_cmd  = '"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe" -batch -T -ssh'
let g:netrw_scp_cmd  = '"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pscp.exe"  -batch -q -scp'
let g:netrw_sftp_cmd = '"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pscp.exe"  -batch -q -sftp'

See :help netrw-putty (and lots of scrolling around in that documentation page).

Answer 4

Personally, when I need to do this; I open up a local gvim (A little speedier; I have had issues with x11 forwarding over WAN) and do

  :e ftp://<username>@<server>:/<fileToEditRemotePath>

You will have to authenticate each time; but works fine for quick edits. On linux; you can use scp rather than ftp; but I'm not sure how to setup the putty forward for that...(Most likely the netrw-putty answer above takes that into consideration, hence I am up voting it)