Yes, the Emacs plugins/bindings are not perfect (strange mix between native bindings and emacs) either. Have you found anything that tramp is “pretty transparent” for but codium + sshfs is not, delta the single extra connection step, similarly transparent for? I haven’t yet.

What has you wanting something other than emacs tramp? For some things, IMO, code + remote extensions provides enough of an upgrade to be worth suffering through its inferior vim emulation, but those things were so terrible with tramp that I was already looking for something better. If you’re used to emacs + tramp, codium + sshfs probably provides a very similar experience. In terms of project management, I find Code/Codium very similar to emacs + projectile.

Ideavim is close but occasionally infuriating.) (I tend to either use emacs + evilmode or some jetbrains IDE + ideavim for most of my real programming work these days. The Code/Codium plugins for that are not nearly as good as either evilmode or ideavim. The place VS Code and Codium really fall down for me is in the vim emulation.

Visual studio code ssh fs