Setup whatever SSH configuration options are needed for your connection, and then save the connection. This screenshot shows how you’d get going to setup MacVim with SFTP. Once you have installed ExpanDrive, you create a mapped drive to the remote server. While these screenshots are on the Mac, it looks pretty much the same on Windows. ExpanDrive is free to download and try out and is available on Mac and Windows. Here is a quick tutorial on how to get it goingĭownload ExpanDriveFirst you want to download the latest ExpanDrive release here. You don’t need to download the file, edit it, and then re-upload it. Connecting Vim to an SFTP serverĬombining Vim and ExpanDrive is a powerful workflow – you actually edit and manipulate files on SFTP/FTP or S3 in real-time from directly within the editor. Just hanging out in Github with a few commits and not much maintenance. There are a couple plugins out there to connect Vim to cloud storage, like vim-sync but as you can see, they are fairly spotty. Vim has a robust environment for plugins and a solid community of developers using and creating plugins to extend the functionality.

You’re doing something right if your interaction paradigm hangs around for nearly 40 years. MacVim is one of the most popular and modern incantations of the vim editor, which is itself an improved version of ancient vi editor initially developed by Bill Joy (also popularly known as co-founder of Sun Microsystems) in 1976. If you’re a developer there is a pretty good chance that you spend a lot of time in either Sublime Text or MacVim wrangling code.

Editor with ftp for mac