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* local emacsclient to remote emacs server
@ 2022-03-21 16:15 t
  2022-03-21 18:22 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: t @ 2022-03-21 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi Emacs users.

Is there a way to connect local emacsclient to the remote emacs server? I am trying to figure out a way to leverage emacs for remote dev work, wherein the remote machine is my development server: files are there, processes run there (TRAMP therefore isn't enough). E.g. could be a containerized dev environment.

Kinda surprised that VSCode "just works" for that sort of thing, but perhaps I shouldn't be. After all it runs in the browser.

Yes, ssh + screen or tmux + terminal emacs kinda work, but feels wrong to have all of these intermediate layers when all I really care about is Emacs. I don't use shells much and when I do I prefer to do it from Emacs.

Ideally I wish I could run X version in all its GUI glory, but XQuartz on OSX can't handle hiDPI or I failed to figure a way to get reasonable resolution. Ditto `xpra`. Linux to Linux it actually works just fine.

Let's go with `caveman` version then. We'll start remote daemon and forward its Unix socket to our local machine:
> ssh -L /tmp/foomacs:/run/user/1000/foomacs remote
> emacs --daemon=foomacs --no-desktop

Local machine (OSX in my case):
> emacsclient -s /tmp/foomacs -t
> *ERROR*: could not open file: /dev/ttys007

Should I have reasonably expected this to work? Or was Emacs client/server not built for such usecase? Remote server running Emacs 28. Tried local emacsclient27 and emacsclient28 - same result.

Thanks



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2022-03-21 18:22 ` Eric S Fraga
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2022-03-22 16:03 ` Felix Dietrich
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