Start emacs from the command line with remote ssh file open

Question

How to start Emacs from the command line with and open file trough ssh?

What I usually do is first open Emacs and do: C-X C-F /ssh:my_remote_server:/file.txt RET

How can I directly open the file from the command line doing something similar to:

emacs --remote "/ssh:my_remote_server:/file.txt"

I guess this approach can help for you. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/25033/run-elisp-from-command-line-in-running-emacs — itirazimvar, Jan 17 '21 at 20:08
Doing `emacs -Q "/ssh:my_remote_server:/file.txt"` works fine for me. Where/how does it break for you? — NickD, Jan 17 '21 at 20:52

Arkadiusz Drabczyk · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-18T12:29:38.820

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To open a file when starting a new instance of Emacs you can generally do:

emacs "/ssh:server:file"

as described in man emacs:

SYNOPSIS
       emacs [ command-line switches ] [ files ... ]

If you use Emacs daemon and want to open a file within an existing instance of Emacs you can do emacsclient "/ssh:server:file" as well but it will cause emacsclient to block the terminal:

$ emacsclient "/ssh:freebsd:Makefile"
Waiting for Emacs...

If you want to use emacsclient without blocking the terminal do:

emacsclient --eval "(with-current-buffer  (window-buffer) (find-file \"/ssh:server:file\"))"

edited Jan 18 '21 at 12:29

answered Jan 17 '21 at 20:28

Arkadiusz Drabczyk

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it is workin. Is there an advantage of doing this in comparison of what NickD propose in comment? – ucsky Jan 18 '21 at 08:35
@ucsky: it works as well, see edited answer – Arkadiusz Drabczyk Jan 18 '21 at 12:29
It's the same thing: the only reason I added `-Q` was to ensure that there was nothing in any init file that would cause a problem. – NickD Jan 18 '21 at 15:16

Start emacs from the command line with remote ssh file open

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