From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs? Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:18:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83cyyy5dyg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85msy98sni.fsf@elpa.gnu.org> <87r0nidkmt.fsf@bernoul.li> <83bkelc1p1.fsf@gnu.org> <87fs3xwzxm.fsf@bernoul.li> <837cp9bur7.fsf@gnu.org> <87zg23tjby.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83ledn6zj4.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8crt7d4.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83v8cr5a81.fsf@gnu.org> <87msy2tklg.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19774"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Manuel Giraud Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 04 14:19:49 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qd8YU-0004sg-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:19:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qd8Xk-0006wb-Pq; Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qd8Xi-0006rg-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qd8Xh-00074Z-5i; Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:18:57 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Pv/raknUsVsOhpQteIjNAwWyLa/SGcqeQOQml8Tdj0Q=; b=f8NwoWLrGz6L AuGG7EBD6Efon81nGkq+mGjGxMLFvESMXIUwLZjuSaG/8Bvn4ZrscyZuAOZ9vWmK/R5U+m47u9U64 8GuwDppDRZmLpMOoqX08IyMKLwVuzOoIHeqD2aWkDUHambmV+s8ZzCeNcje9RL3ws08rPNregoXqq 2ZqItDrUMaQA/tHz1UtKnxVxEZhAnhPsZiYKMuuF7J4zYSLbMpkcNU43w1sjMXiognMWSB6TxGHLJ /HnDAHCi2RguEDurZawMBKiRZZDYYRtyKCfa1l7dm2lAoHO1VXQLyXNKwp72HYbsFVWrkHd1tUWY3 0yBelnHb75HrbmCSTthzow==; In-Reply-To: <87msy2tklg.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:21:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310070 Archived-At: > From: Manuel Giraud > 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 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.