Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Jai Dayal]

Point taken. The manual does indeed define visit.

However Vim offers the exact same functionality.
On May 9, 2013 1:19 PM, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > And BTW, you said "visit", not edit.  Visit does not strictly mean edit.
> > You are just as ambiguous as you are inaccurate.
>
> In Emacs parlance, "visiting" means loading the contents of a file into
> a buffer for some purpose (reading, editing, processing, whatever.)
>
> On this mailing list, saying that Emacs can visit a file on a remote
> machine is more precise than saying that it can edit that same file.
>
> TRAMP is much more than visiting remote files. It is a framework for
> working with a local Emacs instance on a remote machine. For example:
> with your local Emacs visit a remote source file, then compile it and
> run a gdb session as you would do if it were a local file.
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