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by dietr1ch 1901 days ago
What's so good about VSCode's SSH editing plugin over emacs' tramp-mode?

Does it runs shells and LSPs remotely for you? Emacs can run eshell remotely, but LSP support is still lacking AFAIK. (I'd love to be corrected. xkcd.com/386)

Can you hop through different connections? In emacs you can open a file in a private machine that's only reachable through another one by just opening,

    /ssh:me@public-host|ssh:me@private-host:/path/far/away
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qsort 1900 days ago
Yes, yes and yes.

The remote plugin effectively lets you work on a remote machine (or OCI container) with your local VSCode instance, as a matter of fact it's the setup I'm using right this moment. This includes remote language servers, remote shells and even remote-specific configurations.

I'm a diehard vim user. I used to do everything in vim. Even my undergrad thesis was proudly written with vim.

This is the feature that single-handedly made me switch to vscode.

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