I have tried to love TRAMP, but I can't figure out how to get eglot to work properly. I use it for C++ in a large codebase, so eglot is mandatory.
The other thing is that I like to close my laptop, reopen it the next day, and have access to the same remote buffers. (Maybe this is possible with TRAMP.)
Ultimately I just use emacs in tmux over ssh, with CLICOLOR defined appropriately, and this gets me 95% of what I want.
I wish I could get rid of those last <50ms of keypress latency. And variable-sized fonts for eglot inlay type annotations. They are quite distracting when they're the same size as the code.
TRAMP remote buffers aren’t a huge issue on disconnection because the buffer contents are stored locally: TRAMP’s magic mostly occurs on open and save. Unfortunately, your modew like eglot have to be TRAMP-aware and execute over a ssh connection somehow. Many LSP servers use stdio communication, so it should be possible to put together a mode hook that detects if the buffer file name is a TRAMP file name and then does something like `ssh remotehost -- cd /project/root ‘&&’ clangd --stdio`
Eglot does that automatically though. It detects when you're in TRAMP and launches the language server in a remote. Of course, it assumes that the language server exists at the remote, but that should be the case.
