Using nvim remotely

[kbiesiadecki141]

Hello,

I often have to work on remote machines and I'd like to be able to run my nvim locally and connect to a server. I've seen suggestions on Reddit to do the following:

start the server:

nvim --headless --listen 0.0.0.0:9321
or whatever address:port you want

then attach with:

nvim --remote-ui --server :9321

However, I'm getting this error when starting up the server (using localhost and a random port number):
nvim: Failed to --listen: no such file or directory: "127.0.0.1:0141"

Is there a better way to go about this? I'm mainly trying to prevent myself from having to copy over my local config to the remote, otherwise I'd just run nvim there. Thanks!

[ditatompel]

nvim: Failed to --listen: no such file or directory: "127.0.0.1:0141"

0141 is invalid port number.

[mikew]

I maintain nvrh which should simplify starting the remote and local editors, but it doesn't do anything to copy your config to the remote machine.

There's also remote-nvim.nvim which can copy your config over.