Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-30 Thread Ted Roche
While we're on the subject of meeting ideas, http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Organizational/MeetingIdeas is a good place to put them. I've added screen, VNC and the other remote GUI system I've heard about lately, NX. On Apr 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, James R. Van Zandt wrote: It would

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-29 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I much prefer running emacs within a shell system on the remote system under screen. If for some reason the connection between the 2 systems is broken, I don't lose anything on the remote system at all. I agree screen is very useful. I start long jobs

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-29 Thread Bill Ricker
I agree screen is very useful. I really loved Screen back in the days of dialup, but it's great when accessing multiple servers from a lame desktop. PuTTY /or OpenSSH + screen lets me have manage servers sessions sanely, from anywhere. And I don't even need Screen on all servers, just my

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-27 Thread Ted Roche
Using screen sounds like a great presentation for the group! (Hint, hint!) On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: When I go to work tomorrow, there will be an xterm already open on my desktop already ssh'ed into my home system with that same screen session already attached to. If

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Ted Roche wrote: Using screen sounds like a great presentation for the group! (Hint, hint!) Speaking as someone who loves screen, but fears and loathes its manpage, I'm with you! How's about it, Paul? -K P.S. Re: the original question, thanks to every who answered; tramp did the trick

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-27 Thread Tom Wittbrodt
On 4/26/06, Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or what-have-you, but,

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ted Roche wrote: Using screen sounds like a great presentation for the group! (Hint, hint!) Speaking as someone who loves screen, but fears and loathes its manpage, I'm with you! How's about it, Paul? I'd love to, however, as I mentioned

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:34 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or what-have-you, but,

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 12:34 pm, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or what-have-you,

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Lussier
Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially frowned on (being plaintext and all). So I'd like to use ssh or scp or what-have-you, but, while I'm sure

Re: Emacs-over-ssh?

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Lussier
Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do this very routinely. The first step with ssh is to make sure that you enable X tunneling. ssh -x remote-host Then any X based utility you run from that session on remote-host will show up on your local system. That's not what he's asking for.