How I use my terminal

Every vim/tmux user has created an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, admittedly probably quite fast implementation of half of Emacs.

vim+tmux setups usually lean on system primitives = pipes, files, signals, scrollback so the tooling tends to stay transparent across environments. that gives them an edge in portability and debugging, especially over ssh or in constrained shells. it's just lets your workflows shaped around different guarantees so natively, it naturally makes building your own vim config an obvious choice

> especially over ssh

Emacs has TRAMP mode - stands for “Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol", it lets you:

- Edit files as if they were local: /ssh:user@host:/path/to/file

- Chain connections: /ssh:jumphost|ssh:target:/file for bastion hosts

- Access Docker containers: /docker:container:/etc/config

- Edit Kubernetes pods: /kubectl:pod:/app/settings

- Sudo seamlessly: /sudo::/etc/hosts or /ssh:host|sudo::/etc/config

- And even combine them: /ssh:server|docker:container|sudo::/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

What you get? Transparent integration - Dired, Magit, etc, they just work. There's no context switching - you stay in your configured Emacs environment. Your keybindings, packages, customizations remain the same. It's multiprotocol: Supports SSH, FTP, SMB, ADB (Android), and more.