open remote file locally?

[Levi Pearson]

"Ryan Byrd" <ryanbyrd at gmail.com> writes:

> if the directory were shared via samba or nfs, then you could open the file
> directly with vi (actually emacs, who uses vi?!?!)
> 

In case you weren't aware of it, emacs has a cool extension called
tramp mode that allows you to remotely access a file over rsh, ssh,
etc.  It works like Ange-FTP, which edited a remote file via ftp.  See
the info pages for more details.

                --Levi