[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > BTW, would it be possible to mention _why_ tramp is better than > ange-ftp...?
I think that's difficult because Tramp isn't better. It does a different job. Tramp consists of three parts. One part groks filenames of the form "/method:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/some/file" and delegates the real work to backends based on the method. As an added value, you can omit the method, and then it will choose a default method based on the user and the host. One of the backends it knows about is ange-ftp. The second part is a backend which uses smbclient to access the files. The third part is a backend which uses a remote login program to access the files. The added value for using Ange-FTP together with Tramp is that this provides a unified filename syntax for remote files, regardless of how the remote system is accessed. One can remove the Tramp entries from file-name-handler-alist and re-add the Ange-FTP entries there. But it's also possible to just type "/ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/some/file" as the filename, or to set tramp-default-method, as Michael mentioned. Kai _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
