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I have thought about that. For this same reason I did not remap a lot of keys in nvim, because I still want to be able to use vim wherever I work if that is the only option.

However, I think that creating a simple git repository with rc files and configuration can be used to create a uniform experience across machines.

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The git repo idea is fine for some machines, but when I log into a random customers server at 4:00AM to fix some issue that paged me, I'm not spending time cloning a repo to setup neither vim nor tmux, it just has to work.

Also the machine may not actually able to reach out onto the wider internet.

I think it depends on the use case. If I had to do what you do with random machines, I would probably need to be familiar with default tool setups as well

And for me, the most SSH’ing I do these days is into my docker containers and odds are I won’t be opening vim while I’m there.

I do like the repo idea, but I wonder if there’s an easier and maybe faster way to do it over the SSH tunnel

You may be interested in https://www.chezmoi.io/

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