editing remote files with eshell

[Andrew Yates]

I've been using emacs for a little while and decided yesterday to try
to use emacs with eshell as my primary terminal. I have most
everything working satisfactorily, but I still haven't found a good
way to edit files on remote hosts. I know that TRAMP can edit remote
files using SSH, but it isn't as transparent as I would like.

Is there any way that when I run "emacs filename" in a SSH session
using eshell,  the remote file can be opened in a new local buffer? I
thought this might be possible to do with an eshell alias and TRAMP,
but BASH is run when I connect to a remote host with SSH.
Alternatively, is there any way to run eshell on the remote host
instead of BASH when I connect via SSH?