Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:00PM
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Seconding the recommendation.
On my last project, I decided to do all remote server ops through Tramp, just to see how convenient it was. Turns out, very.
Besides launching a shell, one trick that you can do is piping Tramp invocation, including across different protocols - essentially creating tunnels. One special case I use frequently is for sudo operations.
C-x C-f, then /ssh:[email protected]|sudo:example.com:/etc/someconfig
Suddenly, you're editing as if you launched a session with sudo on the end machine.
Coupled with dired and M-x shell, it becomes a very convenient way of working.
(And in case Tramp causes you trouble, or you just need to close remote buffers and connections, remember about M-x tramp-cleanup-* set of commands.)
EDIT:
And lest I forget - GDB integration works over Tramp too.
On my last project, I decided to do all remote server ops through Tramp, just to see how convenient it was. Turns out, very.
Besides launching a shell, one trick that you can do is piping Tramp invocation, including across different protocols - essentially creating tunnels. One special case I use frequently is for sudo operations.
C-x C-f, then /ssh:[email protected]|sudo:example.com:/etc/someconfig
Suddenly, you're editing as if you launched a session with sudo on the end machine.
Coupled with dired and M-x shell, it becomes a very convenient way of working.
(And in case Tramp causes you trouble, or you just need to close remote buffers and connections, remember about M-x tramp-cleanup-* set of commands.)
EDIT:
And lest I forget - GDB integration works over Tramp too.