Re: Setting gdb to use eshell buffer

[Ulrich Herbst <ulrich.herbst@gmx.de>]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> ncohen@ucsd.edu writes:
> 
> > Hi I'm using tramp to successfully transparently edit remote files
> > however I also want to compile and debug them from inside emacs.
> > How do I do this?
> 
> With difficulty :-/
> 
> Tramp comes with a file tramp-util.el which contains a function that
> allows you to do remote compiles.  It is, however, a fake, because it
> doesn't show any output until the remote compile is finished.  (M-x
> compile RET shows you output as it is arriving.)  And what's more,
> Emacs is frozen while it is waiting for the compile to finish.
> 
> I'm thinking about extending Tramp to allow background processes.  I
> think that Tramp needs to open multiple connections to the remote host
> to do that.  (If somebody has other ideas, please speak up.)  And if
> you open multiple connections to a host, then password caching becomes
> interesting.  And password caching is potentially very dangerous.
> Also, it would make sense to reuse connections, instead of opening a
> new connection whenever you issue a new compile command.

No, i haven't other ideas (and i don't understand the rest of that
post).
Would it be possible to use that "extended" tramp to debug perlscripts
remote ? (I need that).

Uli

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