Remotely Edit Files on Vagrant

2020-11-20

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We know we can edit files via scp in Vim as we’ve seen in: Vim SSH.

$ vim scp://user@host//path/to/file/file.extension

Editing files on vagrant virtual machine is a little bit harder to achieve.

We can ssh into vagrant (along with option vagrant ssh) after adding our ssh public key:

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -p 2222 vagrant@localhost

However we can’t add these flags to scp. So what is the solution then?

The solution is adding ssh config file as we’ve seen in SSH Config:

Host vagrantlocal
  HostName localhost
  Port 2222
  User vagrant
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  PasswordAuthentication no

After that we can remotely edit files:

$ vim scp://vagrantlocal//path/to/file/file.extension

All done!

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