[alwillis]

> The process of typing pwd, and copying the location into emacs (similar applies to Neovim) already is too much friction, that it's easier to just open the barebones Vim on the remote.

Vim has had the ability to open files remotely over ssh, sftp, etc. for a long time using the built-in plugin netwr [1].

Neovim takes it to another level [2]:

    Nvim's RPC functionality allows clients to programmatically control Nvim.
    Nvim itself takes command-line arguments that cause it to become a client to
    another Nvim running as a server. These arguments match those provided by
    Vim's clientserver option.

[1]: https://vonheikemen.github.io/devlog/tools/using-netrw-vim-b...

[2]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/remote.html