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Help, I'm lost! Emacs over SSH? Or something else? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Ardie83@alien.top to c/emacs
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Hi, Im not sure if this is the right platform to ask on. Long story short, Im stuck at this GIS job, massive computing experience under my belt, but close to 20% experience in GIS. Im playing around with SmallWorld locally and on a cloned repo. But they also have a Development environment on a remote server. Everyone here says theres no way to use your own Emacs version (28) on this one, except Emacs 23. Do you have any comment on this? Talk to me like Im a child. Im not sure if its an SSH setup. A senior told me it isnt (in a very thick accent). He might be bullshitting. (They use a VPN and sometthing called "f5 networks endpoint inspector")

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[–] FrozenOnPluto@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

More info is needed, really.

Yes you coudl ssh there and use the local Emacs (v23 apparently.)

If ssh is supported like that, then local to you Emacs (v 29 or whatever) over Tramp/ssh should work fine as well (the F5 load balancer deep packet inspection wouldn't see the different; Tramp is just ssh'ing and running commands same as a user would.)

You could also try sshfs (map a local filesystem to a remote mount over ssh) but in my experience thats really slow.

You could run an Emacs on the remote, with X11 projection to your laptop, over ssh tunnel, but that'd likely be slow, and Emacs 23 is ancient :)

.. so a local to you Emacs 29 with Tramp over ssh to the remote should likely work, but it depends on some other things; they _could_ block it, but not likely, assuming you can ssh there yourself.

Now, if theres a jumpserver or something, that could be a problem (2FA type challenges in the middle) but multi-hop ssh tramp could do it..

Another question is .. why the heck are they stuck at Emacs 23, which is probably 10+ years old. Thats a security risk right there they should be happy to remedy :)