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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"

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  • I guess this approach can help for you. emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/25033/…
    – itirazimvar
    Jan 17, 2021 at 20:08
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    Doing emacs -Q "/ssh:my_remote_server:/file.txt" works fine for me. Where/how does it break for you?
    – NickD
    Jan 17, 2021 at 20:52
  • @NickD yes that work, could you do an answer with this?
    – ucsky
    Jan 18, 2021 at 8:27

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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\"))"
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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, 2021 at 8:35
  • @ucsky: it works as well, see edited answer
    – Arkadiusz Drabczyk
    Jan 18, 2021 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, 2021 at 15:16

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