From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Flaschen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing remote files with eshell Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:02:54 -0500 Message-ID: <45EA994E.8010005@gatech.edu> References: <85hct1wfkl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173002607 20693 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2007 10:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:03:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 04 11:03:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HNnYl-0002tx-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:03:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNnYk-0001CI-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:03:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNnYR-0001BO-6a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNnYO-00018c-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNnYO-00018J-D3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from deliverator5.gatech.edu ([130.207.165.165]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1HNnYN-0008TQ-T4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from deliverator5.gatech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B2FF1D19D7 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 05:02:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from mailprx3.gatech.edu (mailprx3.prism.gatech.edu [130.207.171.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.mail.gatech.edu", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by deliverator5.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022C31D19CB for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 05:02:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from [128.61.73.81] (r73h81.res.gatech.edu [128.61.73.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (sasl: method=PLAIN, username=mflaschen3@mailprx3.gatech.edu, sender=n/a) by mailprx3.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B159721A3 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 05:02:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070104) In-Reply-To: <85hct1wfkl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41640 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "Andrew Yates" 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). Wow. I didn't know about TRAMP, or that eshell could execute emacs commands inline. I just installed TRAMP, and that is amazing. I'm going to figure out what all these intriguing-sounding emacs packages really are Thanks, Matt Flaschen