Using emacs across many hosts

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Published on 2010-03-16T12:48:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 13:06 UTC
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On a daily basis I:

  1. use multiple workstations running either Linux, Windows, or MacOS X
  2. edit files on additional Linux hosts that are not any of the workstations mentioned above

The only common element here is that the internet connects all of these hosts: workstations and servers. I can keep all of the config files in sync on my workstations too and can run an X server on all of them. What's the right way of running emacs? I don't want to sacrifice any features.

In my ideal world I can type 'emacs foo.txt' on a remote host and some magic happens via X forwarding to display the file in my workstation's existing emacs session.

Non-solutions

  1. tramp: when I'm manipulating a remote host an editor is just part of my workflow. I need a terminal open so I can run other commands quickly. tramp is all wrong for this.
  2. ncurses emacs: sucks, I want the graphical kind

If you don't have a positive answer to my question, please don't just guess. Thanks.

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