Help me to fix my tramp (ssh/scp) workflow

Question

I'm relatively new to tramp and despite being certain that it offers an elegant solution to my needs, I wasn't able to find one thus far. Let me briefly describe my workflow:

I connect to a server via tramp via ssh:user@host:path/ and there I usually edit a given text file. Commonly I have to upload a new document to the same file from my local machine. To achieve this, I (and this is the part I want to fix) open a separate eshell buffer in emacs and copy the file via scp to user@host:path/ . I then (which - again - is very undesirable) use this eshell buffer to connect (via ssh) a third time to the server to change the permissions of this newly uploaded file.

Clearly, this workflow is ridiculously inefficient and in desperate need of improvement. Can someone help?

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I'd also like to disclaim that I searched for relevant questions on this side and found

• Tramp/Dired transfers files inline over ssh instead of using scp externaly,
• Executing remote commands with TRAMP with a single SSH connection and
• remote tramp eshell session changes to localhost.

However, I wasn't able to derive an answer of my question from them - probably due to the lacking knowledge on my part.

Answer 1

For copying files from the local to the remote machine or vice-versa, I connect to the remote machine with tramp: C-x d /ssh:user@host:/path/of/remote/dir I have the window split in two, on one side the local dired buffer and on the other side the remote one. So, I use dired-do-copy from dired-aux package.

Edit: forgot to add as phils suggested, you havet to set dired-dwin-target:

(setq dired-dwim-target t)