Remote Editing

[stefan riemens]

You might want to look into sshfs. It's basically just mounting an
sftp resource like you mount a harddrive. Really neat...


Stefan

2010/1/11, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>:
> 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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