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Re: Tramp & ange-ftp
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Tim X |
Subject: |
Re: Tramp & ange-ftp |
Date: |
25 Feb 2003 18:56:27 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
>>>>> "Ant" == Ant Eater <tuckerm@together.net> writes:
Ant> I've run into a problem running both tramp and ange-ftp on
Ant> remote sites. I can access remote sites via tramp with the
Ant> following syntax:
Ant> C-x C-f /user@host:/path/to/file.txt
Ant> This works perfectly on hosts which have only ssh/scp available.
Ant> The problem is that I have a couple of hosts where ftp is the
Ant> only available transfer method and I'd like to be able to use
Ant> emacs to edit files remotely on those hosts. Is there a way of
Ant> explicitly visiting a file with ange-ftp?
Ant> BTW, When and why was the syntax for tramp changed so that it is
Ant> the same for ange-ftp?? Is there a way to revert to the old
Ant> tramp sytnax "/[user@host]/file.txt" ??
Ant> I'm running Emacs 21.2 on Slackware 8.1 with a current version
Ant> of tramp recently downloaded from savanna.gnu.org(?).
Ant> Thanks for any assistance here.
Ant> -Mark
You can always specify the transport method (ssh, ftp etc) in the way
you specify the path. I think you just put it at the beginning e.g.
/ftp:.....
Also, check the customize options for tramp - you can control the
syntax and set it back to the old default if you want. This is what
I've done.
Tim
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