> You might now expect that there would be an eshell command that you could type to open a remote file in your local Emacs, but there isn’t.
No, in Emacs you always open a file by typing `C-x C-f`
`C-x C-f` calls the `find-file` function which can be called directly from eshell
`C-x C-f` calls the `find-file` function which can be called directly from eshell