On my desktop I use the hbrid color scheme in vim, with the preferred colors set for my consoles 16-color palette (as described in the README).
However, on my laptop, I use the solarized color scheme, so when I SSH into my desktop from my laptop and open VIM it will look funny using the hybrid colors.
Is there any way I can 'forward' a vim configuration to set the colors when SSHing into a different machine? (Assume the colorscheme file is already installed, and all that needs to be done is call colorscheme solarized
)
Best Answer
You can access environment variables in your
vimrc
using$NAME
.ssh
sets the environment variableSSH_CONNECTION
within an SSH session to non-empty metadata about the connection. You can combine these two to run configuration code based on whether you're accessingvim
over SSH or not:The body of the
if
runs whenSSH_CONNECTION
is non-empty, so if you put this into your desktop's.vimrc
then you'll get the solarized theme over SSH, and whatever you configured earlier the rest of the time.