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praptak on Feb 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Still Use Emacs

You can dired into a remote directory via ssh, start a (remote) shell there and have local command editing with working command & file completion. Works wonders for remote work over high latency links.

hollerith on Feb 25, 2012 [–]

>"You can dired into a remote directory via ssh"

If that relies on TRAMP then I am not impressed. (TRAMP is slow and seems to stop working after a while.)

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