Can the Emacs server edit deleted files specified by the Emacs client?

Question

I want to configure emacs server so that the files indicated by emacsclients are related to the emacsclients file system and not to the server file system. For example, if I create emacs on a "darkstar" machine, and I connect to this server via emacsclient on "brightstar" with the command

emacsclient -nw '~/fantastic' 

The emacs server will try to edit the ~ / fantastic file on darkstar, not a bright star. Identical, vice versa. I am open to all kinds of shy suggestions.

* Note: I want the emacs process to track all the buffers that I opened on different machines, track my color settings, bindings, etc. I want all this to be accessible and playable on any arbitrary machine with emacs. The emacs server seems to do this, but without the ability to edit local client files!

Answer 1

You should be able to configure a shell function that uses tramp, for example

 edit-local() { emacsclient -e "(find-file (expand-file-name \"$1\" \"/ssh: $USER@ $(hostname):$PWD\"))" } 

Of course, you may have to change the tramp protocol to whatever you configured.

Answer 2

Did the remote computer (the one running Emacs) mount the file system of the local computer? If so, you can do something like:

  emacsclient --eval ´(my-open-file "~/fantastic" "my-local-machine")´ 

Then you could write a function my-open-file , which could, for example, open the file //mounts/my-local-machine/home/YOUR-ACCOUNT/fantastic (assuming it's a mount point).

To create the emacsclient command line, you will need several hacks of elisp and some hacks of the script (using, for example, Ruby).