An Emacs TRAMP method for Glitch

What is your tutorial about?

TRAMP is for transparently accessing remote files from within Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Overview.html

Who might find this useful?

People who happened to get on the Emacs boat. And the Glitch boat. What a combo!


Tutorial:

TRAMP is way smart. It can figure out the weird TTY-ridden invalid-UTF-8-clobbering thing that is the Glitch terminal. All it needs is a program that connects to that terminal.

1. Get a program that connects to the Glitch terminal

It just so happens that I wrote such a program:

Get version 1.3.0 (or later, in the future :crossed_fingers:)

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
curl -Lo ~/.local/bin/snail https://github.com/wh0/snail-cli/releases/download/v1.3.0/snail.js
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/snail

(You might have to restart your shell in some distros if .local/bin didn’t exist.)

Set up your Glitch account by getting your persistent token

mkdir -p ~/.config/snail
echo xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx >~/.config/snail/persistent-token

2. Add a custom TRAMP method

Put this in your .emacs:

(with-eval-after-load 'tramp
  (add-to-list 'tramp-methods
   '("snail"
     (tramp-login-program "snail")
     (tramp-login-args (("term") ("-p") ("%h") ("--no-raw")))
     (tramp-remote-shell "/bin/sh")
     (tramp-remote-shell-args ("-c")))))

I think you have to restart Emacs for it to take effect :woman_shrugging:

3. Open a file from a Glitch project

Use the filename format /snail:(your project domain):(path in project).

emacs /snail:snail-cli:src/index.js

It goes in through the terminal, so you have to be a collaborator on the project.

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