Re: sshfs + magit + gopls

Michael Albinus <[email protected]> writes:

> "Patrick Ohly" <[email protected]> writes:
>> My expectation was that both methods do remote command execution exactl=
y
>> the same way, with feature parity and perhaps even using the same
>> code. But apparently that is not the case.
>
> There is no feature parity. sshfs support for remote processes is
> limited. There a no plans to improve it; at least no plans by me.

Thanks for clarifying. In that case, trying to use the sshfs method as
replacement for ssh isn't worth pursuing further - fair enough!

>>>> All of this works with tramp over ssh.=20
>>>
>>> This might come down to what I said earlier about sshfs not being=20
>>> an environment.
>>
>> What does "environment" mean in this case? Does that refer to how both
>> methods are implemented?
>
> Yes.
>
> Perhaps you give the tramp-rpc backend a try. It is brand new, still in
> alpha version, but acc. to my experience stable. And it has even some
> magit-specific optimizations on board. See <https://github.com/ArthurHey=
mans/emacs-tramp-rpc>.

That looks very promising, thanks for the pointer.

Bye, Patrick