Question

I’m looking for a vim script that, when I save, duplicates my changes to a second directory. In this case the second directory is on a VM that I can ssh to.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you want to do it manually add this to your vimrc:

command! DuplicateFileRemotely !scp % user@remotehost:~/mylocation/

Then call it in command mode:

:DuplicateFileRemotely

If you want to do it every time a file is saved add this too your vimrc as well:

autocmd! BufWritePost * :DuplicateFileRemotely