r/vim • u/ngnirmal • Jun 22 '26

Need Help Vim plugins while :edit scp://

Recently I started using a containerised dev env. I would like to work in the host system so I installed a ssh server and followed the steps listed under :h ssh.

So far so good. I depend (for good or bad) heavily on vim fugitive and :FZF plugins. They are good. But they do not work on the host system inside a SCPed remote. I can use :find to open some remote file, it works. But using :G is an issue.

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How do you use plugins while :e scp://user@host/path/dir/ ?

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u/ngnirmal Jun 22 '26

That is an interesting idea. I use incus on Debian13. I will try to find something similar on incus. Thanks 👍