From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:26:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8cr5a81.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8crt7d4.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:54:47 +0200)
> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> rms@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:54:47 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> >> Cc: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>, stefankangas@gmail.com,
> >> emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
> >> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 16:36:17 +0200
> >>
> >> >> - It provides some convenience functionality to use this from various
> >> >> shells running inside Emacs.
> >> >
> >> > Can you provide details? The above is too terse for me to understand
> >> > the functionality.
> >>
> >> Just my one 2 cents datapoint:
> >>
> >> I have this line in my init.el
> >> (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook 'with-editor-export-editor)
> >>
> >> and now, I can do a standard Unix "crontab -e" or "vipw" to edit those
> >> special files from a remote eshell (be it via sudo, ssh whatever).
> >
> > So we are talking about EDITOR settings missing from the shell init
> > files?
> >
> > (I believe "M-x shell" does read the shell's init file, doesn't it?)
>
> 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?
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2023-09-01 14:38 ` Adding with-editor to Emacs? Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-01 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-01 17:25 ` Jim Porter
2023-09-01 17:44 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-01 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-01 20:23 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-02 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-02 18:12 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-02 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-02 21:04 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-03 17:02 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-03 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 18:21 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-03 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-02 19:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-02 21:26 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-09-02 23:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03 5:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-02 11:39 ` Michael Albinus
2023-09-02 16:52 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-10-17 10:23 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-17 17:18 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-17 18:09 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-17 19:26 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-10-17 18:24 ` bug#66598: Missing options from emacsclient man page Peter Oliver
2023-10-18 5:16 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-21 13:05 ` Peter Oliver
2023-10-21 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 14:35 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-29 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-12-23 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 14:36 ` Adding with-editor to Emacs? Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-09-03 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 18:54 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-09-03 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-04 8:21 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
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2023-09-06 0:59 ` Richard Stallman
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