Re: Setting gdb to use eshell buffer

[Kai Grossjohann]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I'm sure it's possible, but it's probably also very painful to do,
> especially in the context of Tramp (you'd probably have to either require
> users install some multiplexing program on the server's end or write it in
> Perl and transmit it, but it's likely to be a large piece of code).
>
> It might be easier to think of it as a tramp-server, which you'd run in
> place of a bourne shell.  Maybe it's not a bad idea.

Yes, something like this could be useful.  It would be more similar to
Ange-FTP, in a sense, because we expect a certain kind of server to be
installed on the remote end, instead of just making do with a shell.

Gives the M in Tramp a new meaning ;-)

Kai