Remote Editing

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 11 January 2010 07:59 AM, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 1/11/10, Dave Cross<davorg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I often need to edit files on a remote system. I like to do this by
>> setting up an SSH bookmark in the GNOME 'Places' menu (Places ->
>> Connect to Server). This gives me a Nautilus window on the remote
>> server from which I can open the required files in a local editor.
>>
>> This used to work with both Emacs and Gedit. I'm not sure when things
>> changed, but it no longer works with Emacs.
>
> I know that this is not exactly what you're after, but still... If you
> want to edit files with Emacs via an ssh connection, have a look at
> TRAMP. From the intro to the manual:
>
> "After the installation of TRAMP into your GNU Emacs, you will be able
> to access files on remote machines as though they were local.  Access
> to the remote file system for editing files, version control, and
> `dired' are transparently enabled."
>

+1 for this recommendation. I use TRAMP everyday to edit files across 
the Atlantic. I don't know how much of a pain it would be without TRAMP.

> HTH,
> Andras

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