README.md

viSSHous

"infect remote ssh sessions with your vim profile"

The goal of Visshous is to enable you to automatically transport your .vimrc profile settings when doing work on remote servers, without having to manually 'copy/paste' or 'scp/sftp' files.

Requirements:

• plugin manager (if you use one) must be installed manually on remote machine

Quickstart:

From local machine:

sh local.sh

Then, simply use ssh as normal:

ssh <remote-machine>

How does it work?

Visshous exploits the default sshd configuration to pass your vimrc without having to configure extra settings. We do this by using the fact that 'sshd' allows by default 'locale config' variables (see man locale if you're curious) to be passed on through a remote host. To exploit this, we simply base64 encode our local .vimrc file, and pass that in through the ssh protocol itself as an env variable. Then, we can simply decode our remote vimrc from that env variable. Because this solution passes the configuration in an 'ssh-native' way, its a bit cleaner .

What's Next?

I plan to turn this into an optional system daemon, which will watch for chages to your .vimrc file, and inturn update your viSSHous config which gets passed whenever you ssh. The idea is to passively embed your vimrc into your tty'd SSH sessions with a native transfer mechanism.

Tested On:

• Google Cloud
• IBM Cloud
• AWS EC2
• Microsoft Azure