>
>
> Then I am afraid I don't know how to do this from emacs. According to
> my understanding this has to be solved on the ssh side.
>
> Also if what you are editing is inside the zip file, then you can still
> edit it with emacs. Just open it like a regular text file, emacs will
> list all its contents which you can then edit.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> Let me generalize this a bit - I'd like to automate interactive command
line apps. Is there a generic solution in emacs for this.

I've never got expect to work - but I guess that's the kind of solution I am
looking for. An arbitrary sleep is a little to fragile.

Regards,
Kashyap