Emacs-over-ssh?

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:34 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> I -know- that there's a way to edit a file locally, and then have it be
> put in place on a remote system; I've used FTP, but that's now officially
> frowned on (being plaintext and all).  So I'd like to use ssh or scp or
> what-have-you, but, while I'm sure that there's an accepted mechanism for
> doing this, I remain ignorant.  How do I "make it so"?

tramp?  

http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

('apt-get install tramp' on Debian/Ubuntu takes care of everything for
Emacs versions < 22)

Once installed, [C-x C-f]
/user at host:/path/to/file

does exactly what you want.