emacs on a remote server

emacs on a remote server

[Prateek Sadhukhan]

Hi,

This is what I want to do. I want to start emacs as a server on one 
machine (say A) and then connect to it from another machine (say B). Is 
it possible?

1. When A and B are both linux
2. When A is linux and B is windows.

Regards
Prateek

Re: emacs on a remote server

[andrea]

Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@cisco.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is what I want to do. I want to start emacs as a server on one
> machine (say A) and then connect to it from another machine (say
> B). Is it possible?
>
> 1. When A and B are both linux
> 2. When A is linux and B is windows.
>

A simple way is to use screen, but that only works from the terminal.
The integrated server is not working via tcp/ip if I understood
correctly, I think some external packages like gnuserv should be able to..

Re: emacs on a remote server

[despen]

Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@cisco.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is what I want to do. I want to start emacs as a server on one
> machine (say A) and then connect to it from another machine (say
> B). Is it possible?
>
> 1. When A and B are both linux
> 2. When A is linux and B is windows.

If emacs is running on A, you'll need to execute a command on A.
You can do that by using ssh,rsh, or whatever.

You can "talk" to the running emacs on A with emacsclient.

All you need then is to tell the running emacs to create a frame on
the remote display.

Re: emacs on a remote server

[jpkotta]

On Dec 17, 8:07 am, Prateek Sadhukhan <psadh...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is what I want to do. I want to start emacs as a server on one
> machine (say A) and then connect to it from another machine (say B). Is
> it possible?
>
> 1. When A and B are both linux
> 2. When A is linux and B is windows.
>
> Regards
> Prateek

I often work on a computer in a lab (Windows) and connect to the emacs
daemon running on my workstation (Linux).  I have cygwin with ssh and
X on the lab machine and I just start an X server and do "ssh -X
user@workstation emacsclient ..." to get an emacs frame on the remote
machine.  I needed to change the DPI of the cygwin X server to get the
fonts at a reasonable size, because cygwin's X was not detecting
properly; YMMV.

Re: emacs on a remote server

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Prateek,

On Thursday 17 December 2009 06:07 AM, Prateek Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is what I want to do. I want to start emacs as a server on one
> machine (say A) and then connect to it from another machine (say B). Is
> it possible?
>
> 1. When A and B are both linux
> 2. When A is linux and B is windows.
>

Please look at this post[1], and the rest of that thread. I think the 
discussion there answers your questions.

[1]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-09/msg00100.html

GL
-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: emacs on a remote server

[Prateek Sadhukhan]

Hi Thanks all of you. I will try all these and see.

Regards
Prateek