[wellylug] Anyone here use SSH?

[Michael Robinson]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:16:46AM +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> Sorry, I may have come across as a bit tetchy there :-)  Often when
> people hear about bcvi for the first time they focus on that bit (which
> isn't in bcvi it's in the editor) and they respond with something like:
> 
> "yeah but Vim/Emacs/Gedit/K-whatsit/Eclipse-plugin/etc already does
> that"

Actually, emacs *does*, but only sort of.  emacsclient requests emacs
open a particular file, and can do that over a TCP connection, which
could be proxied via ssh forwarding.  Unfortunately, it only presents
the filename, not the file contents as I understand bcvi does, but that
could be fixed with tramp.  You'd need to combine tramp's ssh features
and emacsclient, and write a wrapper script, but it could be made to work.

Not as neatly as bcvi though (note the number of coulds in the previous
paragraph :).  

I suspect it is because if you're a die hard emacs user, you're already
running all your shells under emacs, and using tramp, so you don't "need"
something like bcvi.

Michael.