Re: aliases? was: names

2001-03-10 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 10 Mar 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote: Directory aliases can be done trivially using environment variable substitutions, I think. Does this do what you need: (setenv "src" "/local/dev/tlroche") C-x C-f /.../$src/Score... I think it even works to say (setenv "remote" "/r@sm:[EMAIL

Re: names

2001-03-09 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 09 Mar 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote: Hrm. I will add it to the tramp2 todo list because of the compatibility needs with tramp1. I don't know how soon it will be working, though. IMVHO it's not necessary to try too hard to make the filename syntax be compatible with the old one. After all,

aliases? was: names

2001-03-09 Thread Tom_Roche
Presuming TRAMP2 is still wish-list-able, could I suggest what might be a feature? I work with several servers, more than a few of which have ungodly long user/host/paths: e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/local/dev/tlroche/webassign/v4 PuTTY, like many FTPs, has a nice feature whereby one can save the

Re: aliases? was: names

2001-03-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
the protocol anyhow... In any case, I don't think it's a bad idea. Grab the tramp2 sources and look at the construction of the file-names as is. Then make a suggestion about exactly what to use there. :) Directory aliases can be done trivially using environment variable substitutions, I think. Does

Re: names

2001-03-08 Thread Francesco Potorti`
internally. I think that having different possible styles of file names is a good thing. That way, we can experiment practically with them, and hopefully find a sort of consensus about which one is better. I mentioned mc because it has a similar problem as us, and it solved it. A syntax like

Re: names

2001-03-07 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Francesco Potorti` wrote: The midnight commander uses this sort of file names: /#sh:[user@]machine[:options]/[remote-dir] I wonder what the beginning means? Does "/#sh:" mean it's to be fetched via ssh? And are there other "/#" filenames?

Re: names

2001-03-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 07 Mar 2001, Kai Grojohann wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Francesco Potorti` wrote: The midnight commander uses this sort of file names: /#sh:[user@]machine[:options]/[remote-dir] I wonder what the beginning means? Does "/#sh:" mean it's to be fetch

names

2001-03-05 Thread Francesco Potorti`
The midnight commander uses this sort of file names: /#sh:[user@]machine[:options]/[remote-dir]

default login names

2000-04-15 Thread Kai Großjohann
I've been thinking about default login names. Right now, deep down in the bowels of rcp.el, every file name with a missing login name is rewritten to put in the local user name instead. I was thinking of allowing nil as user name everywhere, with the semantics that the user name

rcp.el 1.104 -- bug with special chars in file names

2000-02-25 Thread Kai . Grossjohann
It wouldn't properly quote the special characters when copying files. Hope this is fixed now. ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/rcp.el kai -- Abort this operation? [Abort] [Cancel]