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On the flip side, it's pretty cool what Emacs can still do on a text terminal. Multiple windows, mouse, auto completion pop-ups--all work comfortably over an SSH session.

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I use tramp for all things ssh these days. Becomes very practical w/ ssh-agent and Emacs bookmarks.

You can even use eshell w/ tramp... sorta

What do you mean sorta? The eshell integration is amazing in later versions. Can cd into docker instances. Is glorious.

Just quirks, like if you cd to an absolute path 'cd /' it will cd to the local path not the remote one.

There are quirks, I'm sure. But that is one that actually makes sense. I do sometimes wish it were easier to cd to the root of the remote, but not often.

Could you share details, please? Does it work out-of-the box or what do I need do do this?

Edit: Found it out myself. Install docker-tramp.el [1], `C-x C-f` to `/user@myserver|docker:mycontainer:/`

[1]: https://github.com/emacs-pe/docker-tramp.el

Apologies, having a day mostly out. That is indeed the package I am using. Glad you found it.

I usually prefer having the main remote directory open in dired and a shell session in another buffer. I prefer to work in a Posix shell as AFAIK eshell does not do at least one of: IO redirection, piping.

The only thing I miss in terminal are Hyper and Super. Is there some way to get them to work in terminal?

You can configure the terminal emulator to emit a specific sequence for hyper/super, then configure Emacs to convert it back using local-function-key-map: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79374/are-there-any-....

Out of the box, Konsole+Emacs do this with super.

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