[wellylug] Anyone here use SSH?

[David Antliff]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:07, Grant McLean wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 09:56 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
>> Cool - and a similar thing for Emacs:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
>
> I've never been an Emacs guy, but I don't think that's the same thing at
> all.

Ok - I didn't say it was the same, I said it was similar, but your
point is taken.

> What bcvi brings to the party is that when you're already logged into
> the remote server and you find a file you want to edit then in that
> remote shell session

Emacs+TRAMP opens a file on a remote server by transferring it to your
workstation (perhaps via SSH, or a bunch of other protocols) where you
can edit it in an editor process running on your workstation. It's not
the same thing, but it is a rather similar idea.

-- David.