From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs in the Cloud Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:09:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y5zm8qw7.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> <87vcuqouvk.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87oc0hk1v0.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311671383 17436 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2011 09:09:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:09:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 11:09:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qlddz-0006PJ-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qlddy-0000or-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qlddg-0008SD-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldde-0006VY-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:41559 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qldde-0006VQ-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id p6Q99GT6008650 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:09:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87oc0hk1v0.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:11:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 82.115.149.64 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142306 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > Bill Wohler writes: >> I've used tramp for opening files, but it seems that it would be painful >> if impossible for replacing an interactive shell session. Can you use it >> this way? > > In eshell you can do > > cd /ssh:somemachine: > df > > and it will call 'df' remotely. This of course involves some serious > trickery with redirecting stdout to files and transferring them, and > even with a shared ssh connection this is way slower than using a > terminal directly. Still, it's pretty impressive and something I use > regularly. Yes these are the sort of things I regularily wish were stable enough for my everyday use. I haven't been able to assist so far. Maybe this is on topic with regards to the original topic: A cluster of Emacsen running on different machines sharing state over the newish tcp based emacsclient interface. Maybe with Rudel and Guile somewhere in there in the mix :) I would love for Emacs and Lisp to be my single point of contact to the world of machines. Were not there yet. > >> I could not live without terminal-based Emacs (and emacsclient -nw). > > Well, me neither. > > -David -- Joakim Verona