Re: emacsclient over ssh

[suvayu ali]

2009/6/23 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Can I get some guidance on this:
>>
>> I want to run emacsclient on localhost but connect to emacs-server
>> running running on remotehost.
>>
>> is there syntax for the emacsclient -s flag to go thru ssh to the
>> remote emacs-server
>>
>>   maybe something like emacsclient -s host:server -c
>>
>> If this is the wrong way to go maybe someone can tell me how its done.
>> So far I've just been doing ssh user@host
>> Then run emacsclient on the remote... but of course I'm then limited
>> to a console emacs.
>
> Possibly just enable x forwarding? Google will help with that. Probably
> something like /etc/ssh/sshd_config and
>
> "X11Forwarding yes"
>
> Then if you have the server running on hermes for example your
> command could be I guess:
>
> ssh hermes 'emacsclient -c filename'
>

use 'ssh -Y' for X forwarding

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Suvayu

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