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I am curious about your situation that causes you to edit files remotely. I've never had to edit files anywhere but my local file system. Are you developing or

I am curious about your situation that causes you to edit files remotely. I've never had to edit files anywhere but my local file system. Are you developing or is it more of a devops/sysadmin kind of role?

giancarlostoro 8y ago
I have to do it all the time cause I want to develop on a VM that matches the target platform for my project. Usually involves figuring out how to debug things. My solution is to install VS Code on remote system and use X forwarding depending on project. I also use PyCharm Pro so in such case I use Vagrant and it does its thing but it syncs awfully as OP mentions so debugging can become extremely painful idk why JetBrains has not fixed said issue customers have complained (remote SSH / Vagrant support is part of their paid tier).
- ElCapitanMarkla 8y ago
  This is my scenario at the mo, I've tried syncing the code dirs between the VM and my local machine but I haven't found a nice solution for that. My current solution is just SSH/Vim but I think I'd like to go back to a graphical editor. I like Vim but sometimes it's a hassle on the big projects.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    I use Vagrant w/ VirtualBox and setup shared folders, but it's not as nice when you want to debug or execute code. PyCharm Pro has great support for Vagrant though it sucks at updating certain things on the server end.
simias 8y ago
I definitely use tramp a lot to remote edit files in Emacs. I suspect it depends heavily on the type of application your develop and your workflow, but it might also be that if you never really had the possibility to do that easily you might never really realize what you're missing since you're used to do things differently. It's a bit like X forwarding in that respect. To give you an example of what you can do I often use tramp locally to edit files as root: instead of having to fire a different instance of an editor as root to edit a config file I can just do it "remotely" from my main Emacs instance, with all my config and without worrying about messing something up by having the entire editor running privileged. I work in embedded development so I also often use it to browse and edit files on the live target system (beats using a crappy dumbed down vi from busybox). And of course as you mention for general sysadmin tasks it's also great, I'm a developer but that doesn't mean that I don't have some sysadmin to do from time to time.
karmicthreat 8y ago
One reason I use it is if I am working on an embedded device. Sometime I just want to go in and try a concept out that I couldn't just spin virtual machine up for.
mraison 8y ago
I'm developing. It's useful whenever I need to work on a machine with a specific environment and/or more bulky hardware than what's available on my laptop.

giancarlostoro 8y ago

I have to do it all the time cause I want to develop on a VM that matches the target platform for my project. Usually involves figuring out how to debug things. My solution is to install VS Code on remote system and use X forwarding depending on project. I also use PyCharm Pro so in such case I use Vagrant and it does its thing but it syncs awfully as OP mentions so debugging can become extremely painful idk why JetBrains has not fixed said issue customers have complained (remote SSH / Vagrant support is part of their paid tier).

ElCapitanMarkla 8y ago
This is my scenario at the mo, I've tried syncing the code dirs between the VM and my local machine but I haven't found a nice solution for that. My current solution is just SSH/Vim but I think I'd like to go back to a graphical editor. I like Vim but sometimes it's a hassle on the big projects.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I use Vagrant w/ VirtualBox and setup shared folders, but it's not as nice when you want to debug or execute code. PyCharm Pro has great support for Vagrant though it sucks at updating certain things on the server end.

simias 8y ago

I definitely use tramp a lot to remote edit files in Emacs. I suspect it depends heavily on the type of application your develop and your workflow, but it might also be that if you never really had the possibility to do that easily you might never really realize what you're missing since you're used to do things differently. It's a bit like X forwarding in that respect. To give you an example of what you can do I often use tramp locally to edit files as root: instead of having to fire a different instance of an editor as root to edit a config file I can just do it "remotely" from my main Emacs instance, with all my config and without worrying about messing something up by having the entire editor running privileged. I work in embedded development so I also often use it to browse and edit files on the live target system (beats using a crappy dumbed down vi from busybox). And of course as you mention for general sysadmin tasks it's also great, I'm a developer but that doesn't mean that I don't have some sysadmin to do from time to time.

karmicthreat 8y ago

One reason I use it is if I am working on an embedded device. Sometime I just want to go in and try a concept out that I couldn't just spin virtual machine up for.

mraison 8y ago

I'm developing. It's useful whenever I need to work on a machine with a specific environment and/or more bulky hardware than what's available on my laptop.