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hexa00 | 8 years ago

Theia does not only provide remote file access you also have LSP (language server protocol) for code-completion / docs ala eldoc , company) etc..

Almost all of Theia's features are based in the backend.

The emacs equivalent would be like having emacs in daemon mode and a tcp based emacsclient locally. (I wish that existed)

Also the idea is to have something a bit more modern and appealing to the mass of javascript/web devs out there.

Theia is still far from replacing emacs, but as an emacs user myself and a Theia dev I hope I can bring what I love about emacs to Theia :)

discuss

fiddlerwoaroof|8 years ago

Theoretically, couldn't you use socat and ssh tunnels to proxy the emacs server to another machine?

hexa00|8 years ago

So emacsclient/emacs deamon work with a tty, basically emacsclient opens a tty and sends it to the emacs deamon and it uses it to send output/receive input, so you really need to be local there's no way that I know to forward a tty on the network.

The local socket opened is used only for configuration between emacs and emacsclient see: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lib-src/em...