On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>
> wrote:
> > Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >> I may be completely outdated, but this is what I do.
> >>
> >> Start a shell inside Emacs (M-x shell ). Switch to shell process and ssh
> >> to the appropriate server. Start R. Now execute ess-remote (M-x
> ess-remote).
> >> This tells Emacs/ESS that the shell process is really just an R process.
> You
> >> now have R running.
> >>
> >> Only caveat was that last time I used it (and that is some time ago),
> >> sometimes C-c C-c would stop the ssh connection instead of just stopping
> R.
> >>
> >> Kasper
> >>
> >
> > Two minor points.  Kasper's description works for me with XEmacs.
> >
> > 1. I could not get C-c C-c to stop the ssh connection
> >
> > 2. On XEmacs, you can also create a ssh connection with M-x ssh
> > and then do a M-x ess-remote
>
> > Doesn't that work on Emacs?  I'm glad I don't use it :o)
>
> That's what amazes me.  There are interactive functions for telnet and
> rsh, both of which are ancient and potentially insecure, and no
> interactive function for ssh in the version of emacs 22 that I have.
> Something like tramp is amazingly flexible and supported by FSF and it
> uses ssh transport by default but there is no ssh shell as far as I
> can see.
>


I build Emacs weekly out of their CVS, and I have an ssh command. No idea
when it was introduced.


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