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		lathiat on Feb 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alternative shell with native support for JSON, YA... There are a few tools that work like this including sshuttle - transferring a local copy of the tool to the remote end. Mosh also kind of works like this but can’t recall if you technically need the software already installed at the other end. Sshuttle definitely doesn’t.

theblazehen on Feb 27, 2021 [–]

You may be thinking of https://github.com/danrabinowitz/sshrc?

sneak on Feb 27, 2021 | [–]

I don't really understand copying one's .vimrc to a remote machine via ssh to run a remote vim, while vim itself has open/save-over-scp support.

It's an extra step, plus typing lag, plus my support tools needed by my vim plug-ins won't be there, et c.

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