Vim can open remote files by putting scp:// at the start. Check the vim wiki or similar for exact syntax. Works with your ssh config aliases and keys and such, so can be pretty smooth.
What I don't know is if he knows of this feature and declares it not-equivalent, or if he's never seen it. TRAMP is likely more powerful, in part due to emacs itself. Like, you can view a remote dir in dired and open an image and see it inside your emacs. I don't know if gvim can view images, I only use regular vim or neovim, but I typically use a graphical emacs.
Mostly unrelated, you can open a web url in neovim like it's a file. I've done this to read a page with a bad layout before. A bit like w3m, but then you can easily delete chunks or save parts to another file if you want. You are just seeing the raw html, but usually the paragraph tags are fairly readable.
Vim can open remote files by putting scp:// at the start. Check the vim wiki or similar for exact syntax. Works with your ssh config aliases and keys and such, so can be pretty smooth.
What I don't know is if he knows of this feature and declares it not-equivalent, or if he's never seen it. TRAMP is likely more powerful, in part due to emacs itself. Like, you can view a remote dir in dired and open an image and see it inside your emacs. I don't know if gvim can view images, I only use regular vim or neovim, but I typically use a graphical emacs.
Mostly unrelated, you can open a web url in neovim like it's a file. I've done this to read a page with a bad layout before. A bit like w3m, but then you can easily delete chunks or save parts to another file if you want. You are just seeing the raw html, but usually the paragraph tags are fairly readable.