🚀 go-pugleaf

I do quite a lot of work on remote machines and therefore Andy Norman's
ange-ftp package has been a real godsend. In fact, I have sold many
people on using emacs on this particular feature alone. It seems
logical to extend some of the other emacs functions in the same
manner, specially those in compile.el and telnet.el. What I would like
is to be able to say M-x compile in a buffer visiting a remote file
and the command getting executed in the remote directory, perhaps via
a telnet buffer connected to the remote host. Currently, I have to do
the steps manually which isn't that bad but the biggest disadvantage
is not being able to use next-error and such. Similarly, I wanted M-x
find-file in a telnet buffer to prompt me with the remote directory.


Even for a novice lisp'er like me it was easy to add the directory
tracking feature in the telnet buffer, a la shell mode but with the
ange-ftp syntax.  However, before doing any work towards 
remote compilation, it seems a good idea to ask on the net if anyone
has already done this because almost anything would be better than
whatever I come up with. I haven't found anything relevant using the
lispdir but then it doesn't even have well-known things like the gnuserv
package listed in it.


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Sanjay Mathur                                              mathur@iastate.edu