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by chaosite 1590 days ago
I usually use tramp or something with my local emacs to control a remote box. Multiple remote boxes, actually.
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That's interesting, I haven't used `tramp` seriously in awhile (ditto `sshfs` etc.)

How do you find the experience of running the build remotely but getting error messages in a local buffer, or running `git-grep` when LSP pukes for whatever reason, or any of the other stuff that is fairly straightforward when emacs is on the same box as the source and build tools?

I don't ask out of snark: I'd friggin love to host emacs on my appliance and seamlessly interact with the real machine, and I gather VSCode has a pretty solid story on this, but I've failed to get that result enough times with emacs that I sort of timed out on it.

If you have e.g. dots on github or whatever that make this fly well I'd love to test-drive it.

I remember this all working well many years ago so long as:

- the remote box has git, the LSP-server, or w/e you are trying to run - you use SSH control master: https://xenodium.com/speeding-up-emacs-tramp-via-controlmast...