Jason Rumney <jas...@gnu.org> writes: > Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org> writes: > >>> The scratchbox installation has emacsclient installed, and I was >>> wondering whether it would be possible for me to edit files using >>> emacsclient and have them open on Emacs running on a different machine - >>> in this case my Windows install. >> >> There are methods in Emacs for editing files via various transports. I >> don't know if emacsclient knows about them. I find X Windows to be >> better. > > Emacsclient just passes the paths to Emacs, so it should know about the > same tramp transports as Emacs. More troublesome is getting emacsclient > on GNU/Linux to talk over TCP/IP (by default it uses local sockets), > configuring Emacs on Windows to listen for remote connections (by > default it only responds to local requests for security reasons), and > remembering to supply the file paths in their remote form that the Emacs > instance running on Windows can load.
Ok, that makes sense. > The X server running on Windows route is much easier, and if you use > the Xming server, you can run rootless, so the X windows appear as > native Windows on your desktop (I'm not sure if Cygwin/X supports > this, as Cygwin tends to be a more self contained environment). Cygwin supports rootless. Here's how I start Cygwin X server: XWin -clipboard -multiwindow -silent-dup-error & -multiwindow gives rootless, and the X Windows clipboard is nicely integrated with the MS Windows clipboard. Given my recent problems with Cygwin X server, I tried Xming. It kept crashing. But YMMV. -- -- Stephe