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Re:History and Effective Use of Vim by lunchables on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:31AM (#20485628)
The problem is browsing files, for me. I can't use fzf, nerdtree, nnn.vim, whatever. I much prefer sshfs and treating the remote file system like a local one.

But I'm not really familiar with netrw other than just:

:e scp://host/path/file

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Re:History and Effective Use of Vim by kqr on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:16PM (#20487708)
This is one of the reasons my preferred implementation of Vi is Evil -- the TRAMP network layer in Emacs does exactly what you want: let you treat any remote file system as local. It even does multi-hop access through e.g. bastion machines. It is great.
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Re:History and Effective Use of Vim by clinta on Saturday July 20, 2019 @02:57PM (#20487628)
I've never used any of those plugins, but the built in netrw has a directory browser that works.

On vanilla vim if you :e scp://host// you should get the built in netrw browser working over scp.

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