title: Accessing remote tags file with Emacs
body: <p>I use Emacs (run natively in OSX) to edit files (mostly python code) on Ubuntu VMs. I run a VM locally, but also access code on EC2. I recently learned about exuberant-ctags and was able to successfully create a tags file on my local VM. The tags file is fairly large (30 MB). I'm accessing the tags file in Emacs using tramp via ssh. My first question is should I expect the access to take a long time? It takes Emacs a few minutes to load the tags file, even though its pulling the file off of a VM running on the same machine. </p>
  
  <p>The second problem I have is that after the tags file is loaded, Emacs (again, running natively in OSX) thinks that the code base is on my local drive, not on the drive of the VM and so gives me a file not found error. So if function X is defined in file Y, how do I get Emacs to figure out that file Y is on the remote machine, not in my local path?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>