Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> And BTW, you said "visit", not edit.  Visit does not strictly mean edit.
> You are just as ambiguous as you are inaccurate.

In Emacs parlance, "visiting" means loading the contents of a file into
a buffer for some purpose (reading, editing, processing, whatever.)

On this mailing list, saying that Emacs can visit a file on a remote
machine is more precise than saying that it can edit that same file.

TRAMP is much more than visiting remote files. It is a framework for
working with a local Emacs instance on a remote machine. For example:
with your local Emacs visit a remote source file, then compile it and
run a gdb session as you would do if it were a local file.