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Challenge: Have local files in a developer setup for quick searching of a large tree of code, but mirror them to a remote test server any time they are edited, since your local development platform is not your test platform.

Solution: vim post hooks! Note that this is a work in progress.

/usr/bin/vim_mirror.py:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import os
import subprocess

REMOTE_ROOT="user@host:/path/to/somedir"

if __name__ == "__main__":

   if len(sys.argv) > 1:
      tokens = sys.argv[1].split("/")
      # as implemented this script will ONLY mirror all files rooted in "/basedev"
      # to a given remote root... this will need to be tweaked for different 
      # developer setups in a future version of this script.   Ideally it will take a list
      if tokens[0] == '' and tokens[1] == "basedev":
          local_file = sys.argv[1]
          remote_part = "/".join(tokens[2:])
          cmd = "rsync %s %s/%s" % (local_file, REMOTE_ROOT, remote_part)
          print cmd
          subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

.vimrc:

au BufWritePost * :!/usr/bin/vim_mirror.py %:p