Command for running GNU Emacs. Because I almost never work on a remote
server, if I'm working on a remote server, I needed a command that could
open a file in my local Emacs while I'm in a shell on a remote machine. e
is the solution to this.
It makes the following assumptions:
- GNU Emacs is running locally with the Emacs server running.
sshdis running on the local machine and the servers can connect back.- Public keys have been placed in all the right places (although GNU Emacs will take care of prompting for a password if required, but that'd get very old very quick).
When run, e then uses ssh to call back to the local machine, running
emacsclient and passing it a tramp filename. It also does some simple
tests to check if it should ask tramp to sudo the edit too (so watch out
for that: an attempt to edit a file you don't own might actually work if you
have sudo rights on the remote machine).
It also works locally too, opening a file in a locally-running Emacs server, or kicking off a new copy of Emacs if one isn't available.