Brief account of his experiences pair programming remotely. He uses a Mac, running emacs within GNU Screen to enable simultaneous work visible to both.
"TRAMP (Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocols) is a package for editing remote files, similar to AngeFtp or efs. Whereas the others use FTP to connect to the remote host and to transfer the files, TRAMP uses a remote shell connection (rlogin, teln
Normally, GNU Emacs writes backup files to the same directory as the original files, but this behavior can be changed via the variable backup-directory-alist. In connection with tramp, this can have unexpected side effects. Suppose that you specify that a