Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)

bcvi - run vi over a 'back-channel' If you use SSH, you might find bcvi useful. This article attempts to describe what it is and why you might use it. Let's start with what it is: bcvi is a command-line tool that works with SSH to provide a 'back-channel' from the server you have connected to, back to your workstation. You typically use SSH because you want to send commands from your workstation to a server, but bcvi works in the opposite direction - allowing you to send commands from the server back to your workstation. To understand why this is useful, lets look at a few examples. Our example user Sally will use SSH from her workstation gecko to connect to the server pluto: Example One Sally connects to the server pluto and at the shell prompt, types a command to edit a file: As you can see from the screenshot, Sally typed the command: vi factory.rb and through the magic of bcvi , the result is that the file is opened for editing in a gvim editor window on Sally's workstatio ... Read full article.