Extract "remote emacsclient" as a package

[habnabit]

Extract "remote emacsclient" as a package

[habnabit]

Sure! I'll make a new github repo for remote-emacsclient shortly.

I'm curious how you would use this for interactive rebasing, though.

[Silex]

Nice! About interactive rebasing, from what I understand I can set GIT_EDITOR to what you wrote and my local emacs would be asked to edit the rebase steps file.

The only tricky step is about how to have local emacs notify the remote emacsclient that it's done with the file, but I think it shouldn't be too hard. You just need to write a version of the remote emacsclient that waits for some signal.

Then we can use it like EDITOR=remote-emacsclient crontab -e too.

[habnabit]

Yes, however, remote-emacslient isn't necessary for that—you could use regular emacsclient. The only time remote-emacsclient is necessary is when you are trying to do all of this over TRAMP as well.

[Silex]

Well this is the point, to do it over TRAMP. Sorry if I was unclear.

We already use emacsclient locally a lot for magit. So you think you will have a package ready soon? :)

I'm currently testing remote-emacsclient, I'll ask if I get stuck.

[Silex]

OMG IT WORKED IT WAS AWESOME LET'S DANCE NAKED IN THE RAIN 😍

I just did a heavy interactive rebase over TRAMP and it worked perfectly. I just ran GIT_EDITOR=emacsclient.py git rebase -i SHA1, there I did some squashed/reworded commits and it did the right thing. I think this is awesome for any TRAMP emacs users.

About, emacsclient.sh, one has to be careful which version of netcat he uses, for me it didn't work with nmap-ncat's version, but package nc6 worked. I guess the package could offer bash/python/perl wrappers and do some autodetection. Also it probably makes sense to copy the script to /tmp on successful TRAMP connection.

[habnabit]

yeah, emacsclient.sh was a first draft, but it's pretty much garbage. I'm going to delete it. sorry about the delay on this, though! here's the split repo: https://github.com/habnabit/remote-emacsclient

[Silex]

Ok I'll create issues on the new repo then ;)