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- From: mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Emacs and Distibuted Computing.
- Message-ID: <mack.715004069@deci>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 12:14:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.120025.12576@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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- In <1992Aug27.120025.12576@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:
-
- >I'm an emacs novice, but I can hack a bit of LISP when necessary.
-
- >My problem is this:
-
- >At UMIST we have different machines for different things:
- >Xterminals, Mail Servers, News Servers, Big Processors etc.
- >And I have an account on each.
-
- >What I want to be able to do is to set up ONE emacs on ONE machine
- >which loads and saves files from ANY machine, and handles mail/News.
- >How on earth do I go about doing this?
-
- >This will also help me to justify emacs to some sceptics here who
- >prefer such abberrations as xedit and vi. (And also my insistence
- >on a _REAL_ VT100).
-
- >I'm happy to RTFM, if someone will tell me which FM and which
- >FSection.
-
- >Many Thanks in advance
-
-
- >Simon Read
- >--------------
- >Simon.Read@umist.ac.uk
-
- I'd like this functionality as well. It's seems like like a waste of
- CPU/IO time to start up a new emacs process on a remote host when I
- have a perfectly idle one running on my workstation.
-
- It would nice if emacs 19 had a new and improved 'emacsclient' program
- that could take a host and/or port argument. That way you could put
- something like this in your .cshrc file:
-
- alias vi 'emacsclient -h my.local.work.station \!*' :^)
-
- And whenenver you edited on a remote machine, the text would be sent
- via tcp to the emacs process on your local workstation or wherever.
-
- It looks like the place to start would be in emacsclient.c but I just
- don't have the time. Has anyone else written anything like this and
- like to share it?
-
- Dan
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