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Emacs can run as a server, and you can connect multiple local clients to it. I've tried various ways to have an emacs client connect to a remote emacs server (forwarding a socket over ssh, etc.) but never gotten it to work so there must be more to it than just the socket.

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No, emacs in server-mode does not do what you'd expect. It is only useful to accelerate local start-up. Nothing to do with remote operations.

But it does run in terminal mode - I used to ssh into a remote machine and just run emacs in a terminal there. Actually, there was also some `screen' in the mix, but you get the idea. I preferred that over TRAMP because of the speed.

No I don't get the idea. I was disabusing people of the widely believed myth that an emacs server instance could host remote connections. That one can ssh into a remote machine and run emacs in tty mode is manifestly obvious.

To you, certainly, but perhaps not to everyone. And it can be a good third option in addition to TRAMP or "what vs code does".

I think it doesn't work over tcp but try with the other GUI library.

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