Hi, why would you use vi and not vim? Vim is better! : P if you can access the machine over ssh you can edit a file on the remote host using this special path when opening it:
vim scp://username@host//path/to/file/on/remote/host/filename.extension or if you've already opened vim you can edit it by typing :edit scp://username@host//path/to/file/on/remote/host/filename.extension remember to write the file in order to save it, you do it by typing :w or :w filename Cheers On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Johan Vermeulen <jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be>wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm trying to use vi commands instead of using the mouse. > > I open Gnome-Terminal > > I open a file : vi /home/jvermeulen/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > > I select the key with " V " ( visual line ) > > I type " y " to yank the selected line. > > I can now use > :e otherfile.txt > and paste the text in otherfile.txt > > This is the only way I succeed in copying text to another file in > Gnome-Terminal of xterm. > > But how can I copy text to a file on a remote machine? > > Many thanks. > > -- > Johan Vermeulen > IT-medewerker > Caw De Kempen > johan.vermeu...@cawdekempen.be > > Powered by Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
