Question

I wonder if anyone out there uses ssh through the emacs shell. I am able to connect with the remote machine but I cannot open files to view/edit with emacs using ’emacs filename’ as the ‘Terminal type “dumb” is not powerful enough to run emacs’ (normally emacs would open within the console when connecting through the terminal).

Is this a bad idea to try to use emacs in such a way, or is this possible with a few fixes? Thanks much!

Answer 1

A couple of ideas

• Source the .bashrc explicitly via . ~/.bashrc and/or rearrange your bash init files and ~/.profile so that this gets loaded inside the emacs shell; then running ssh inside the Emacs shell works just fine
• Use the emacs-specific Tramp mode to access remote files via ssh inside your local Emacs — this is useful if you just need to update/touch/edit a remote file so you would not need to open a remote emacs inside the ssh session started from inside your local emacs.