[fouric]

Emacs has had TRAMP[1] (transparently allows you to edit remote files in your local editor using an SSH client) for literally decades now, while SSHFS has been around for nearly as long, and even zeitgeist tools like Visual Studio Code have equivalent TRAMP-like/auto-SSH addons.

The "it's not available on remote machines" line of reasoning hasn't been valid for at least 20 years (age of TRAMP), except for the case where you cannot SSH and have to physically sit at different consoles.

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

[kstrauser]

I love Emacs. I love Tramp. I love iTerm + Fish Shell more than eterm, though, so if I'm SSHing into a server it's from a terminal app outside of Emacs. In that situation, I'd rather use vim to make a quick tweak on a file than bounce to Emacs, tramp into the same machine I'm already in, and edit it that way.

[908B64B197]

Also, the OS that the editor is running on probably supports mounting a remote filesystem via NFS or SMB.