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remote files

Most of my machines are headless, they do not have a monitor attached. Vim usually is installed on all of them, gvim is not. But occasionally I prefer to edit certain files in gvim rather than vim or edit the same file on different machines in one editor instance.

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Sometimes I see people typing the same set of commands in vim or search strings over and over. This is not only cumbersome, but also error prone. Probably they do not know that vim does have