Re: local emacsclient to remote emacs server

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:09:30 +0100, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> said:

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:55:34 +0100, Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> 
>>>>> said:
    Manuel> Hi,
    Manuel> So like you did, I tried to setup an emacs server on one server and 
have
    Manuel> the emacsclient locally. I tried using TCP but ended up with the 
same
    Manuel> error as you:

    Manuel> Waiting for Emacs...
    Manuel> *ERROR*: Could not open file: /dev/ttyp3

    Manuel> … so I don't think that it is the intended usage of "Emacs server". 
It
    Manuel> is more an "editing server" (running locally).

    Robert> Right. Iʼve taken a look at the emacs code, it tries to open the tty
    Robert> that emacsclient is running on, and obviously that doesnʼt work, 
since
    Robert> thatʼs on a different machine than where emacs is running.

BTW, one other possible solution to this is to use the 'crdt' package:
it connects a local emacs to a remote emacs over tcp. You edit
locally, and it sends the changes to the remote emacs. Iʼve not used
it much, but it seems to work well enough.

Robert
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