[thamer]

TIL: TRAMP (Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocols) is a package for editing remote files [...] Whereas the others use FTP to connect to the remote host and to transfer the files, TRAMP uses a remote shell connection (rlogin, telnet, ssh).

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

[tptacek]

Tramp is one of those "reasons to use Emacs in the first place" packages. I've been using Emacs since the 1990s, when someone impressed me with syntax highlighting in Lucid Emacs, and I only picked up Tramp last year. In the last 6-9 months or so, almost all of my development has been over Tramp.

What's particularly impressive about Tramp is that other Emacs packages tend to work well with it. For instance, you can Magit over Tramp --- or, better put: Magit just works in Tramp buffers. Same with language server stuff. It's kind of wild when you think about what's happening under the hood.

[throwawayboise]

Tramp can use FTP if you tell it to.

And it's still transferring files. It's not remotely editing.