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Enable ">> edit file" in remote matlab-shell's

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs-lisp, matlab
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read doc/remote-matlab-shell.org and the Emacs manual section for the --tramp emacsclient option. Reproduce the remote matlab-shell workflow through TRAMP, then trace how ">> edit file" invokes emacsclient. Done means a file edited remotely appears in the local Emacs when that command is used.

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Description

If you run remote matlab-shell via tramp, see doc/remote-matlab-shell.org, and then ">> edit file", the file will not appear in the local emacs. I suspect the fix involves ssh tunneling to get emacsclient on the remote system to open files on the local system. See --tramp in https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/emacsclient-Options.html

Dominant language
Emacs Lisp
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