Re: emacsclient over ssh

[Richard Riley]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Can I get some guidance on this:
>
> I want to run emacsclient on localhost but connect to emacs-server
> running running on remotehost.
>
> is there syntax for the emacsclient -s flag to go thru ssh to the
> remote emacs-server
>
>   maybe something like emacsclient -s host:server -c
>
> If this is the wrong way to go maybe someone can tell me how its done. 
> So far I've just been doing ssh user@host
> Then run emacsclient on the remote... but of course I'm then limited
> to a console emacs.

Possibly just enable x forwarding? Google will help with that. Probably
something like /etc/ssh/sshd_config and

"X11Forwarding yes"

Then if you have the server running on hermes for example your
command could be I guess:

ssh hermes 'emacsclient -c filename'



>
> ssh to linux from opensolaris and then running emacs has a number of
> problems that need solving for that to be handy.  I guess having to do
> with what shell you are in and `stty' setting and other things I haven't
> thought of.
>
> At any rate a console emacs arrived at that way is a pain in the but
> to use. Its fine for normal file/directory work... but I want to
> access an emacs/gnus session running on the remote emacs-server. And I
> want the emacsclient to run in X on the localhost.
>
> Both remote and localhost are running X.
>
> The end result I'm after is to be able to access an emacs/gnus session
> that is running on a specific host from any of several hosts on the
> home lan.
>
> Someway... I want to end up with an emacsclient running in X and
> connected to a server on remotehost.
>
>
>

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