Re: remote editing of files with emacs on a machine that does not have emacs installed

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.4097.1454957541.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi;
> 
>   I'm in a fairly complex environment.
> 
>   My desktop is Windows.
> 
>   I use VirtualBox to reach a local Debian Guest OS.
> 
>   When logged in to the Debian VirtualBox guest OS, I ssh to a CentOS
> 6.6 vmWare vm.
> 
>   The file I want to edit-test-run resides on the CentOS vmWare vm.
> 
>   I wish to use emacs to edit the file on the CentOS vm but the CentOS
> vmWare vm  does not have emacs installed and it probably should not
> have emacs installed locally.
...
>   Now I should be able to bring up (using tramp in ssh mode?) the file
> that resides on machine B using emacs on machine A?

Yes, you should be able to do it. Is it not working?

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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