Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?

[Manuel Giraud]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
>>>> - It implements a "sleeping editor".  This is a shell script, which
>>>>   outputs a request on stdout and then waits to be told to return.
>>>>   With-editor use a process filter too look for that output and when
>>>>   it sees it, it responds in a similar fashion to server.el.  This
>>>>   is useful because makes it possible to do this over Tramp.  (I
>>>>   believe this could also be done using regular emacsclient+server.el,
>>>>   but that is difficult to setup and a security risk if not done
>>>>   correctly.
>>>
>>> If we want a better/safer client-server connections for remote hosts,
>>> it should be handled in Tramp, I think.
>>
>> Probably and it would be great if Tramp did handle that, but I don't
>> even use Tramp except when users report that there is an issue when
>> using Tramp with one of my packages.  So I am not the right person to
>> implement it there, but if Michael were to tackle this, then maybe I
>> would have some insights that could be useful.  Or not.
>
> Finally, I've found a free time slot to check with-editor. In fact,
> emacsclient can also be called on a remote machine in order to reach the
> local Emacs server instance. What is needed is, that emacsclient must
> tell the Emacs server where it is located.

Do you an emacsclient on the server to do this?  AFAIU, with-editor does
not need this.
-- 
Manuel Giraud