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People who want to work on remote access with restricted setups, checkout Emacs. Tramp mode allows you to edit files over ssh, docker, adb etc without you worry

• nine_k 8y ago
  Emacs is great in many ways; I'm saying it as an avid user. For ultimate multi-workplace setup, you can run Emacs in server mode on a cloud instance, and allow network connections to it, or port-forward to its Unix socket via SSH. Now you can run Emacs in client mode from whatever machine you may have, several of them, or ssh to the cloud box and run Emacs in terminal mode in a crunch. All your sessions will share the same set of files, but workspace layout is per client, so you can work comfortably both from an 11" laptop screen and from a 27" 4K screen. As said above, you can use tramp to access whatever other remote files accessible via ssh, and also run a decent (though a bit limited) terminal right from Emacs, to say nothing of running REPLs of all kinds directly, and excellent git integration with Magit. This can even give you a sort of VPN-like access, when the cloud box where the Emacs server runs has access to machines that are not directly accessible to you from the machine you're connecting from. OTOH VS Code likely can be run in a similar setup. In general I very much like the modularization of IDEs: instead of a monolith form 1990s you can mix and match your favorite editor with language servers, REPLs, build servers, etc, all separate and in many cases running remotely.
  • jacobush 8y ago
    For me (20 years of Emacs), Emacs + Keybase has been what made it into a bit of a productivity tool for me, instead of just an editor.