Adam Spiers <orgm...@adamspiers.org> wrote: > > > > > org-mobile-directory: /scpc:**user**@localhost:80/webdav/ > > > > > > > > This looks wrong > > Yes, it doesn't make sense to use tramp to scp files to localhost :-) > > > Your other email shows that you figured this out. > > > > > 2. This destination is modeled on the docs, so if it's wrong, then so is > > > the doc. > > > > Not really: the destination in the doc does not specify the port (80). > > That's the HTTP port, so scp won't work with that - that's what I picked > > up when I said it looked wrong. It needs the sshd port (22 by default > > and implied if you leave it out of the scp path in tramp). > > Right, but scp'ing to localhost doesn't make sense. He should just > use the normal local filesystem path instead and skip tramp. >
Well, to pick a nit: many times one has to model a multi-machine situation on a single machine; after everything is debugged, then various pieces are installed on various machines. It makes sense in that situation to use tramp/scp and webdav/http even locallly. Nick PS. For another example, sometimes I use tramp/scp to edit local files as a different user than the owner of the emacs process, e.g. files owned by root, particularly when there is a number of them that need to be changed and they are in the same directory: use tramp to open the directory as root and then dired to open files. Most of the time however, I do such minor changes with "sudo ed" in a shell buffer :-)