Something that’s bugged me is that when I ssh
into another machine inside a shell in emacs, tab completion gets still behaves as if I’m on the local machine. Just by chance, I once started a shell when using TRAMP to edit a remote file via scp
, and noticed that the shell was on the remote machine and tab completion worked! So, I used this little in a function to start a remote with tab completion without manually opening a file on the remote machine first:
(defun remote-shell (&optional host) "Open a remote shell to a host." (interactive) (with-temp-buffer (let ((host (or host (read-string "Host: ")))) (cd (concat "/scp:" host ":")) (shell (concat "*" host "*"))))) (defun myserver-shell () (interactive) (remote-shell "myserver"))
Steven says
This is just what I was looking for. Thanks.