Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: jonas@bernoul.li,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   rms@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:54:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> >> Cc: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>,  stefankangas@gmail.com,
> >>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org
> >> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 16:36:17 +0200
> >> 
> >> >> - It provides some convenience functionality to use this from various
> >> >>   shells running inside Emacs.
> >> >
> >> > Can you provide details?  The above is too terse for me to understand
> >> > the functionality.
> >> 
> >> Just my one 2 cents datapoint:
> >> 
> >> I have this line in my init.el
> >> (add-hook 'eshell-mode-hook 'with-editor-export-editor)
> >> 
> >> and now, I can do a standard Unix "crontab -e" or "vipw" to edit those
> >> special files from a remote eshell (be it via sudo, ssh whatever).
> >
> > So we are talking about EDITOR settings missing from the shell init
> > files?
> >
> > (I believe "M-x shell" does read the shell's init file, doesn't it?)
> 
> Not really I guess.  I don't know how to set EDITOR correctly to do the
> following:
> 
>    - M-x shell
>    - ssh remote-server
>    - su -l
>    - vipw  --> open a new buffer in *this* Emacs
> 
> But, I could do this with with-editor and eshell (maybe it could work
> for M-x shell also, I don't know) as follow:
> 
>    - C-x C-f /ssh:remote-server|su::
>    - M-x eshell
>    - vipw  --> and here it works, opening an Emacs buffer through
>                emacsclient so I could edit and C-c C-c when done

You've lost me here.  You assume I know what with-editor does?