tailmacs

tailmacs is a Tailscale porcelain for Emacs. The UI is transient-based and uses TRAMP for remote connections.

Requirements

• Tailscale CLI (ships with the Tailscale app)
• Tailscale access token (used to retrieve device list via API)

Installation

Download the package

Use package-vc-install and enter https://github.com/ben-maclaurin/tailmacs.

Set your access token

Create a token, then in your init file:

(require 'tailmacs)
(setq tailmacs-access-token "<token>") ;; ⚠️ recommended that you use a more secure method of storage
(setq tailmacs-organization "<organization>") ;; usually the e-mail associated with your Tailscale account

Features

• Connect to SSH-enabled machines via TRAMP
• Serve content and local servers on your tailnet
• Funnel content and local servers on the internet
• DWIM commands available in dired-mode

tailmacs-demo.mp4