ssh through emacs shell?

Question

I wonder if anyone out there uses ssh through the emacs shell. I am able to connect with the remote machine but I cannot open files to view/edit with emacs using 'emacs filename' as the 'Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run emacs' (normally emacs would open within the console when connecting through the terminal).

Is this a bad idea to try to use emacs in such a way, or is this possible with a few fixes? Thanks much!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346688/ssh-through-emacs-shell

Answer 1

It may not be obvious on first sight, but eshell, the shell that is implemented in Emacs Lisp works fine with tramp:

Welcome to the Emacs shell

~ $ uname -a
Linux local-machine 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP Thu Jul 30 14:45:30 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
~ $ cd /ssh:user@remote-machine:~
/ssh:user@remote-machine:/home/user $ uname -a
Linux remote-machine 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 20 21:56:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
/ssh:user@remote-machine:/home/user $