From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Q on using shell mode remotely Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:09:54 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154358923 19002 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 15:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 17:15:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZUG-0006CW-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZUF-0007q4-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZRI-0004cr-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZRG-0004an-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZRG-0004aG-65 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G7ZTw-0002bR-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:15:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G7ZQw-0005d7-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:11:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36387 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > My question is: can you use shell mode remotely? > > I use ftp through Emacs (ange ftp or tramp with tramp-default-method = ftp) > to access files on a remote box. I have Emacs running on Windows, and the > remote box is GNU/Linux. > > In general, I haven't been using shell-mode, locally or remotely. For remote > use, I've been using VNC or Tarantella, opening a terminal window to use a > shell - I haven't used Emacs remotely, except to edit files and such. > > I thought I'd try to use Emacs shell mode on the remote box, so I gave it a > try: I opened Dired on a remote directory (/host-address:/home/my-home). I > then used M-x shell. However, the shell opened with a Windows Temp directory > as the pwd, and the shell that was used was my Windows shell (bash). And, I > couldn't cd to a remote directory within the *shell* buffer, even using the > syntax /host-address:/home/my-home... > > So, my question is, can it be done? Can you use Emacs shell mode remotely? > If so, how? > > Ideally, shell-mode would somehow figure out where I was (e.g. remote > location) and use the appropriate shell when I do `M-x shell', since I > logged into the remote box for ftp. If that couldn't be done automatically, > I could tell Emacs what shell to use for remote use. > > Is anything like this possible? How do others use Emacs remotely? M-x telnet -- Kevin