The Emacs Tramp package is a wonderful thing. With it, you can easily edit files on remote machines in a virtually transparent fashion. Most Emacs users are familiar with Tramp and use it to edit files on machines on the local network or on remote-network machines directly reachable on the Internet. Often times, though, those remote-network machines are not directly reachable. <\/p>\n
A typical example occurs when a developer is working from home and needs to access a machine on his work network that is protected by a firewall. Emacs, of course, can also handle this case. The normal way is to set rules for how to reach remote-network hosts in your Fortunately, David V\u00e1zquez has tweeted the answer: <\/p>\n #emacs<\/a> tramp multi-hops: edit \/path in remotehost, using bastion as a proxy.
C-x C-f \/ssh:bird@bastion|ssh:you@remotehost:\/path
wow!<\/p>\n — David V\u00e1zquez (@davazp) August 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n .emacs<\/code> or init.el<\/code> file. The rules are a bit complex but are documented in the Tramp manual<\/a>. Sometimes, though, you just want a one-off access to some protected host and it’s a pain to temporarily add Tramp configuration rules for it. <\/p>\n\n