Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: jonas@bernoul.li,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   rms@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:21:15 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Not really I guess.  I don't know how to set EDITOR correctly to do the
> >> following:
> >> 
> >>    - M-x shell
> >>    - ssh remote-server
> >>    - su -l
> >>    - vipw  --> open a new buffer in *this* Emacs
> >> 
> >> But, I could do this with with-editor and eshell (maybe it could work
> >> for M-x shell also, I don't know) as follow:
> >> 
> >>    - C-x C-f /ssh:remote-server|su::
> >>    - M-x eshell
> >>    - vipw  --> and here it works, opening an Emacs buffer through
> >>                emacsclient so I could edit and C-c C-c when done
> >
> > You've lost me here.  You assume I know what with-editor does?
> 
> Ok, I might be lost also (as I said I'm not an expert of everything
> with-editor does).  I'll try to rephrase.  with-editor is able to
> correctly set EDITOR to have any shell command that need editing appear
> into an Emacs buffer locally.  Such command might be over a ssh session
> or into a sudo for instance.

And it provides a separate value for EDITOR to each one of these
cases?

> So I guess you're right it is just a matter of setting EDITOR after all.
> But I think that this is the hard part that with-editor does for you.