What you have described here for text editing holds true for any other action on files that you intend to do while remote logged onto that other box. Why use th

What you have described here for text editing holds true for any other action on files that you intend to do while remote logged onto that other box. Why use the local ls, less, etc, while you have better versions at home? Indeed, why would you use the remote default bash instead of your properly configured zsh, to begin with? It seems when you connect on a remote box many times what you really want is to import its files. But despite there have been a lot of network shared file systems none seams to have become the obvious solution, supposedly because it's hard to fix that problem efficiently in the general case, especially for an operation system, Unix, that attach to files an API that have not been designed for this.