From: Andy Stewart <ruth_andy@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T18:51:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Vim Question

Tim,

> This is for all the Rubyists out there who can really rock the Vim.

Well, one tries.

> The idea here is that I want a Put function that takes a computer name
> as an argument. This function will use rsync to copy all modified
> files from the current working directory to the same directory on the
> remote computer.
>
> The reason for this is that I'm developing on Windows :( but my code
> needs to run on Linux and Solaris.  Pushing code to the machines where
> autotest will run it is the desired outcome.  I don't want to have to
> drop out of vim and into a shell prompt each time I do this.

Why not just edit the files on the machines where autotest runs?

Vim has a mechanism for editing remote files via ftp, rcp, scp, http  
and others.  I've used it before and it saved a lot of fiddling  
around with scripts outside vim.  Here's some more information:  
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=337

Good luck,
Andy