Use a VIM VI on an external server to edit local files
Can I use a vi / vim instance on a remote server to edit a local file?
Something line by line:
cat $local_file | ssh -t $remote_server "vim -" > $local_file
[I am using the above code only to simplify and illustrate the intent of the question]
I know I can go the other way and edit the file from remote_server using vim + scp, but I was curious if it could be done in that direction too.
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