Re^2: bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel'

[grantm]

At the risk of feeding a troll ...

There's nothing in the linked page that in any way mimics the functionality of bcvi - namely allowing you to type 'vi filename' in a remote shell window and have a gvim session start on your workstation.

The page seems to describe a plugin for Emacs (called TRAMP) that offers equivalent functionality to Vim's 'netrw' feature.

It would certainly be possible to modify bcvi to work with Emacs+TRAMP rather than gvim+netrw.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi, I was wondering : wheter if the netrw plugin for vi was mandatory. Because I can make it work for me. After installation I get a result connection refused. penkoad@sd-10516:~$ bcvi docs.txt Can't connect to 'localhost:10019': Connexion refusée Even though i issued (unsafely) an xhost + command to give client access to anybody. I'm puzzled. Is there a manipulation on the server more than installing bcvi script and adding the alias in the session ? regards

[grantm]

You certainly don't needto do xhost +. That would only help if gvim was running on the remote server and connecting back to X on your workstation. The whole point of bcvi is to avoid forwarding X (and requiring gvim and X libraries on the server). Instead, bcvi uses a forwarded socket to pass one message back to your workstation which then invokes gvim with an scp-style file path.

If you type bcvi filename on the server and get Can't connect to 'localhost:10019' then that suggests perhaps the SSH daemon on the server has been configured to refuse TCP forwarding requests. You can find out for sure by running a command like this to connect to the server:

ssh -v -R 10019:localhost:10019  servername

The '-v' will mean you get a lot of debugging output which ought to include a line like this:

debug1: remote forward success for: listen 10019, connect localhost:10
+019

but in your case there may be an error indicating that the 'remote forward' was not successful. The fix would be to make sure the sshd_config on the server includes:

AllowTcpForwarding yes

Even if you can't make bcvi work, you should still be able to edit a remote file like this:

gvim scp://server//path/to/some/file