[wellylug] Anyone here use SSH?

[Grant McLean]

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 13:57 +1200, Michael Robinson wrote:
> 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

No bcvi doesn't present the file contents, it combines the server name
and the absolute pathname of the file and creates a URL in a format that
gvim can open over SSH.

It sounds like a plugin could be used to do the same thing but pass the
url to emacsclient instead of gvim.

Cheers
Grant