Re: Connect emacsclient to a daemon running remotely.

[esabof@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:50:09 PM UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:51:41 +0100
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> > I was thinking about a setup, where I'd have a linux VM with emacs daemon
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> > running inside it, and have emacsclient running on windows connect to it in
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> > some way.
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> > Is this possible
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> I don't think so: Emacs running on Unix or GNU/Linux systems doesn't
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> know how to create a frame on Windows.
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So basically all emacslient does is send a "create frame" command to the daemon?

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> I suggest to use a terminal emulator instead, e.g. PuTTY, then ytou
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> can have TTY frames on Windows.  Another possibility is to install an
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> X server on Windows (e.g., X-ming), in which case you can have GUI
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> frames on Windows.

I might end up running an emacs instance in each enviroment, and send forms to be evaled through ssh.