From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remote editing of files with emacs on a machine that does not have emacs installed Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:08:42 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454958631 1267 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 19:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:10:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 20:10:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrCa-0000Ll-JG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:10:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrCZ-00022p-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:10:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="26379"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IfFT/4Jl8cQHQfoSXAj2X" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZMMcnszzpotUWs//PdRH+SWL+dc= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216767 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109059 Archived-At: In article , Kenneth Wolcott 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? -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***