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: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:26:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83v8cr5a81.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="535"; 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 Sun Sep 03 21:27:59 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 1qcslL-000ATA-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcsks-0002En-77; Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:27:30 -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 1qcskr-0002Ea-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:27:29 -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 1qcskp-0007v2-Pq; Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:27:27 -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=LYI6OvTqg1owGxGVX9XqnTRCowVZA8AzgRZEVegAkdo=; b=onZiGu8TS3k9 wcR0AS0BaSF1j6yogdLzYEzxDa97AFxbF+EF5JXL1BpFrDyK8nS41lOO6hQKO7V26pP2Zv1Oq42SD kiVRn7F6FhaVElT6Hma0B+VrmEk3z3PNn2RmNP2LdC7BQtsHofoli6r+C7nOegy9w9agB0nsCznaJ kucb/YCH7oUElqn7LSBNKbhy7DQSXQBn+zMTzeEpxbmvXSxnaWkyV6rg6iIt15OiQgS+6x3mJD39j t82+p79M6uybuKNycyoAWIfUvttXL/JDmJlD0L48OoZFuQwCiKJWebHubfloRc0WGlKY3bMZfXUZz 6kUeLGTDuhu9rq/vTBgMig==; In-Reply-To: <87v8crt7d4.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:54:47 +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:310022 Archived-At: > From: Manuel Giraud > 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 writes: > > >> From: Manuel Giraud > >> Cc: Jonas Bernoulli , 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?