Like I said, I don't use TRAMP very often. The number of Unixoid systems I have to take care of is sufficiently small that installing emacs on all of them is n

Like I said, I don't use TRAMP very often. The number of Unixoid systems I have to take care of is sufficiently small that installing emacs on all of them is no big deal. I usually start an emacs daemon after booting and use emacsclient to fire up an editor, which is almost instantaneously.