[h-e-w] Re: Navigation with file-find

[Harry Putnam]

"Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> On my system, I can do find-file //xxx.maths.qmul.ac.uk/home/ and then use
> dired to navigate from there within NT Emacs, where xxx represents our
> departmental NFS server and I run the Microsoft NFS client; something
> similar should work with smb.  This does not use tramp or ftp.  However,
> completion does not seem to work well.

Ahh that very syntax works fine here ... thanks.

> But what I actually do in practice is open the remote directory I want to
> work in using Windows Explorer and then invoke Emacs on a remote file or
> directory via gnuclientw using the Explorer context menu.  I have the roots
> of two remote directory trees assigned to drive letters so that they show up
> in Explorer, which I find much more convenient that using Network
> Neighbourhood.  I used Network Neighbourhood only when I was setting up my
> NFS client.

That method still sounds more labor intensive than the first above
though.   Examples like:

C-x C-f //chub/chub-c/reader/.emacs

Opens it up right off...