Re: editing remote files with eshell

[David Kastrup]

"Andrew Yates" <andrewyates@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been using emacs for a little while and decided yesterday to try
> to use emacs with eshell as my primary terminal. I have most
> everything working satisfactorily, but I still haven't found a good
> way to edit files on remote hosts. I know that TRAMP can edit remote
> files using SSH, but it isn't as transparent as I would like.
>
> Is there any way that when I run "emacs filename" in a SSH session
> using eshell,  the remote file can be opened in a new local buffer?

What I do in eshell is just
cd /hostname:directory RET

and then either C-x C-f filename RET or, alternatively,
find-file filename RET
(yes, use find-file as a shell command).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum