@mossfet yeah it is the best part of emacs. You think it is optimal to recompile emacs and reinstall your config on every remote host? If tramp-mode didn't exist, there'd be way less appeal to all the hard setup.
@mossfet You can open a dired buffer and a terminal on a remote machine, edit files, etc. It is the best tool for manual server administration. This is also the draw behind all the sysadmin related modes on elpa/melpa
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@mossfet You can open a dired buffer and a terminal on a remote machine, edit files, etc. It is the best tool for manual server administration. This is also the draw behind all the sysadmin related modes on elpa/melpa