On a daily basis I:
- use multiple workstations running either Linux, Windows, or MacOS X
- edit files on additional Linux hosts that are not any of the workstations mentioned above
The only common element here is that the internet connects all of these hosts: workstations and servers. I can keep all of the config files in sync on my workstations too and can run an X server on all of them. What’s the right way of running emacs? I don’t want to sacrifice any features.
In my ideal world I can type ’emacs foo.txt’ on a remote host and some magic happens via X forwarding to display the file in my workstation’s existing emacs session.
Non-solutions
- tramp: when I’m manipulating a remote host an editor is just part of my workflow. I need a terminal open so I can run other commands quickly. tramp is all wrong for this.
- ncurses emacs: sucks, I want the graphical kind
If you don’t have a positive answer to my question, please don’t just guess. Thanks.
Have you tried tramp with
eshell? You can “cd /remote.host:/some/path” and edit files from there, and if you type a non-built-in, it fires up a ssh pipe to run it. Quite slick.