Opening remote files in local emacs client

Basu · 2011-10-17 01:57:14

I've been finding myself doing an increasing amount of remote programming, either on a server or in a VM. Here's what I want to do: I have an SSH connection open to my remote machine and I have a emacs daemon and client running on my local machine. When I'm terminal-ing around on the remote machine I see a file that needs editing. I know I can go back in to Emacs and use Tramp to login again and open up the remote file. But it would be nicer if I could just run a command in my remote terminal that would somehow call out to the local emacsclient instance and have it open the file for editing. Is there a simple or standard way to do this? I wouldn't mind running a shell inside emacs but I haven't a shell implementation that is as feature-complete as an actual terminal.
Thanks.

lunar · 2011-10-17 06:32:36

@Basu: Sorry to disappoint you, but here is likely neither a standard nor a simple way to accomplish this.

Basu · 2011-10-19 01:33:45

Hmm I was afraid of that. Maybe I'll just stick to running remote dired in Emacs and opening files from there. BTW is there a specific in-Emacs terminal emulator someone really like? I tried shell-mode but it seems like it doesn't do tab-completion.

sujoy · 2011-10-19 03:26:06

try ansi-term

lifeafter2am · 2011-10-19 03:32:53

Could you use sshfs? Not exactly what you are looking to do, but may work.

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#1 2011-10-17 01:57:14

Opening remote files in local emacs client

#2 2011-10-17 06:32:36

Re: Opening remote files in local emacs client

#3 2011-10-19 01:33:45

Re: Opening remote files in local emacs client

#4 2011-10-19 03:26:06

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