Just a heads-up for you emacs-lovers/tramp-users among us.
Since I upgraded recently to emacs 21.1 (the UI *sux*), I have been unable
to use tramp. When I entered the customary syntax for remote file to be
edited via tramp, for example
/r@su:megatron.gaffle.com:file
Instead of calling tramp, emacs would activate ange-ftp, which would try
to log me in as the user "r" on the machine "su". Needless to say, I was
frustrated.
The solution is to upgrade to the newest tramp, v. 2.95:
http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html
Note that there is a new syntax for calling tramp to edit remote files.
It is now:
/[user@machine]file
if you have a default tramp method set in your .emacs file, e.g.
(setq tramp-default-method "su")
otherwise it is
/[method/user@machine]file
which can also be used to override the default method.
Happy tramping!
E
P.S. Perhaps, though, the single most irritating feature of emacs 21.1 is
the attempt to windozify it (where the fuck was RMS when they were pulling
this shit?), e.g. the "home" and the "end" buttons on a standard keyboard
now send you to the beginning and end of the line respectively, rather
than to the beginning and end of the buffer as they used to. Thus you
might also want in your .emacs:
(define-key global-map [(home)] 'beginning-of-buffer)
(define-key global-map [(end)] 'end-of-buffer)
It is NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE to change key-bindings on a program as mature
and entrenched as emacs.
--
Erik Curiel
almost web-engineer/would-be philosopher
"The affairs of human beings are not worthy of great seriousness, and yet
we must take them seriously."
--Plato, *Laws*
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