Dear list, I brought up this issue before but a good solution never arised: being able to use screen on a remote server (so if something goes wrong on my side I can always resume that R session) inside of emacs in order to utilize ESS. The closest thing I found to a good work… Read more »
In emacs, I can edit files remotely using tramp. While ssh’d to a remote server in ansi-term at a specific location, I can open the remote files in emacs as if that remote location is my working directory. This is taken form here. Put the following in the remote server’s .bashrc file: ## Emacs: ansi-term… Read more »
This is actually an update to this post, but since I discovered a few more things, I’ll write a new post. To run screen within a shell buffer in emacs, I tried M-x shell and fired up screen (ditto with M-x term). It gave me this error: Clear screen capability required. I found the solution… Read more »