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Terminal support is the only reason I use Emacs. Remote editing is a must. Emacs is the most feature-complete editor available on terminals. The alternatives a
by zelly 7y ago
Terminal support is the only reason I use Emacs. Remote editing is a must. Emacs is the most feature-complete editor available on terminals.
The alternatives are: run VNC or RDP to get a remote graphical environment for an IDE or use VS Code's proprietary remote extension. Neither of these get me excited for many reasons.
The trick for terminal Emacs is to run Emacs as a daemon and spawn Emacs with the `emacsclient` command.
alias e='emacsclient -nw -a "" -c "$@"'
You will have to rebind some of the key chords that terminal emulators refuse to pass through, but you really shouldn't be using key chords anyway (to avoid RSI).