Try configuring your environment so you run constantly within your Emacs, and use tramp to get to those quick edits. I do reach for vim when I'm on like an airgapped or DMZ'd system, so I totally know what you are saying. Tramping out to nearly all my servers has let me retain for longer the threads of flow established within my Emacs session.
Lately, I've been experimenting with CRIU preserving my tmux'd Emacs session state. So unless an OS update hits libraries my Emacs session needs to reload, I should be able to maintain a better relocatable resumable state than even the Emacs desktop alone could.
Lately, I've been experimenting with CRIU preserving my tmux'd Emacs session state. So unless an OS update hits libraries my Emacs session needs to reload, I should be able to maintain a better relocatable resumable state than even the Emacs desktop alone could.