Re: Keybindings for Emacs with no X?

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> writes:

>> Yes, X11 forwarding is clearly not the way to go.  But why not open
>> files on the remote server using TRAMP which comes with emacs?
>
> In my case, the answer is that editing files is only part of what I do
> remotely. I keep an ssh window open on the remote host anyway; it
> makes little sense to then use a *local* invocation of emacs to open a
> remote file (with the corresponding overhead of transfer protocols,
> mimencode and all that jazz).

Yes, I frequently keep a TRAMP dired or shell buffer open on remote
hosts.  In such a buffer, even completion after C-x C-f defaults to the
remote directory of the dired current buffer or the shell buffers cwd.

> Conceptually, too, it's cleaner if each of my (color-coded) text
> windows is acting on a single host.

You could use one frame per host, and also have the frames colored
differently.  But I don't want to evangelize anyone.  I was just curious
why many experienced emacs users don't use TRAMP.  In my experience, it
enormously matured over the last years from a slow and flaky
implementation of a good idea to a highly usable and convenient tool.

Bye,
Tassilo