tramp-mode is great for editing files remotely, but sometimes having a shell and Emacs together on the same file can be invaluable.

eshell opens up a shell which is like a regular Unix shell, but is written completely in Elisp, so it's built-in to Emacs and is completely portable. eshell has many interesting properties, but let's focus on editing files remotely.

When in eshell, it is possible to change the working directory into a remote directory with the same syntax as tramp-mode. Yes, no manual ssh-ing to the remote machine, it's more like a fuse-sshfs connection, but without fuse and without the manual mounting!

Changing to a remote directory is trivial:

~ $ cd /ssh:root@your-host.io:
/ssh:root@your-host.io:/root $

From there, you can continue to use the shell, but you can also start to edit any file with dired, C-x C-f or find-file.

Apart from that it feels pretty much like a mount point to which you can copy files from and to and so forth.

It's magic!