Re: Using tramp to connect to a remote emacs session

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Peter,

On Thursday 03 September 2009 01:02 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 03.09.2009 um 01:06 schrieb Suvayu Ali:
>
> > So far only reference I found was,
> >
> > > Using emacsclient to make a new frame of a remote Emacs 22 on a local
> > > display
> > > ssh remote_host -f emacsclient --eval ‘”(make-frame-on-display
> > > \”$DISPLAY\”)”’
> >
> > in the emacswiki[1]. Firstly I don't understand how this works, and
> > blindly copy-pasting this to the terminal didn't work either. Some
> > help would be greatly appreciated. :)
>
>
> Ssh opens a connection to remote_host and logs you in. The option -f
> puts ssh into the background allowing to launch an X client. This one is
> emacsclient, which is asked to evaluate some Lisp. This Lisp code is
> make-frame-on-display, which makes GNU Emacs open (create) a new frame
> on the specified screen as given by the environment variable DISPLAY. On
> the remote host DISPLAY should point to your local screen and its X
> server. So the remote GNU Emacs daemon or server will open a frame as an
> X client of your local display's X server and communicate with it via
> the SSH tunnel.
>
>
> If this does not work you can start to debug ssh, but particularly allow
> (trusted) X11 forwarding in the configuration of the SSH server on the
> remote host. Your local X server must be informed to accept connections
> from the remote host.

Thanks for the very clear explanation Pete. :) I had a hunch it is 
something like X-forwarding. I don't really like to do X-forwarding, the 
interface is usually very unresponsive. I would rather go with `emacs -nw'.

Thanks for the reply though. ^_^

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Suvayu

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