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Re:Emacs and Magit by gh02t on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:25AM (#14819549)
No need to install it on remote systems. I'm more of a Vi guy and I have a decent selection of plugins on my primary system, but I appreciate being able to use the built in Vim features without installing stuff on remote machines.

Though Magit seems maybe a bit of a weird thing to be using on a minimal remote system.

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Re:Emacs and Magit by Myrmornis on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:38AM (#14819580)
And you can use the built-in emacs features via emacs -nw on a remote system. Core vim doesn't come with a git client I assume? So I'm not seeing the difference.

The other answer is

  apt-get install emacs-core-plus-standard-packages
or

  apt-get install emacs-core emacs-magit emacs-org-mode
i.e. people produce linux packages that set up emacs with its MELPA packages.

If we don't put stuff like org-mode and magit in emacs then the community will produce emacs distributions bundling the standard add-ons.

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Re:Emacs and Magit by Grue3 on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:27AM (#14819823)
There's no need to install Magit on remote systems. It works flawlessly over TRAMP and I use it every day like that.
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