Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
While working on the VC remote username code, I believe I have a solution. To know how general it is, however, I would like to know if there are any platforms out there that don't have the grep(1) and cut(1) tools installed. If there is any platform that does not have a user readable

Re: [PATCH] Performance fix for XEmacs

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Oct 1999, Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The attached patch tells XEmacs to use a pipe connection to the ssh subprocess. Damn. Not enough testing. Further playing indicates that this fails on the latest rcp from Kai for ssh(1) but not for the telnet connection I

Re: rcp now as tarball

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [... my suggestion ...] Yeah, I also thought about that. Hitting RET every couple of seconds is what I do, after all. But Stefan had an even better suggestion: just start up the shell

Re: Is this a job for rcp.el?

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 02 Nov 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] (I'm assuming rcp caches passwords, as ange-ftp does, but I'm not positive -- I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.) [...] There is no passwd caching I know of. I'm not sure if

Re: EFS and XEmacs

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher A. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very interested in getting this package working for me.. I'm running Xemacs 21.x. Of course the problem is EFS. Are you running 21.1 or 21.2? I recently sent Kai a set of three patches that let me run, almost perfectly,

Re: rcp.el 1.80....

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 26 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest defining it in a human-readable way and then using `regex-opt' on it to obtain an internal version used by the LISP. Somehow, I doubt that this will lead to any observable win in

Re: Missing with-timeout

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 30 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New in rcp.el 1.180 (since 1.130) is use of the function with-timeout. That is not present on my XEmacs 20.3. There appears to be an emulation of it in startup.el. I don't have access to that

Re: [PATCH] Performance fix for XEmacs

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that ssh spits out: 'Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.' It also seems to invoke a non-login shell if stdin in not a tty. Damn. That is painful. I must see if I can work around that

Re: [PATCH] Performance fix for XEmacs

2000-02-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 27 Feb 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For quite a while now I have had a real problem with the performance of inline methods while using rcp.el. This finally got to me enough to go and do some testing and all. I wonder what has

Re: uuencode/uudecode

2000-02-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 29 Feb 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FWIW here is a command that will "uudecode" to stdout on AIX. sed '/^begin/d;/^[` ]$/d;/^end/d' | iconv -f uucode -t ISO8859-1 Very good! I have now added this to the documentation for

Re: Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 10 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my VC, the only place that actually calls (vc-user-login-name) with a uid is: (defun vc-file-owner (file) ;; Return who owns FILE (user name, as a string). So, rather than spend

Re: Errors using slm connection

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 19 Oct 1999, Mark A. Hershberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I get from an manually slogging in and executing the commands: --- cut --- [other_machine:/]# exec /bin/sh [h:w]$ PS1=''; PS2=''; PS3='' stty -onlcr -echo hello // --- cut --- Seems to me that it

[BUG] File name completion in v1.178

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
I am using (stock): ;; Version: $Id: rcp.el,v 1.178 1999/10/24 17:06:42 kai Exp $ File name completion no longer seems to work. This seems to be caused by ls(1) at the far end (GNU ls from fileutils 3.16) returning several columns of names while 'rcp-handle-file-name-all-completions' expects to

Re: Problem with rcp on NT

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
, that efs and ange-ftp have support in the C while RCP does not. :/ Daniel Pittman wrote: Well, I can't speak for GNU Emacs, but on XEmacs 21.2, the following snippet from 'src/fileio.c' might have the answer to why RCP paths don't work quite right... [...] It looks like the /r: syntax

Re: bug that has annoyed me for a while

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 29 Jan 2000, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens whenever I try to find-file an rcp file from a buffer where default-directory doesn't exist. I have tried to reproduce this problem and cannot using "$Id: rcp.el,v 1.228 2000/01/26 12:41:51 grossjoh Exp $" under XEmacs 21.2.

Re: rcp.el 1.147: little bug fixes

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 21 Sep 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to do a few bug fixes since 1.143. RCS log enclosed. This version seems to have introduced a pair of bugs for me, possibly related. I now get: Opening connection for danielp@gandalf using scp... Waiting for remote /bin/sh to

Re: Problem with rcp on NT

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 10 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey uses NT and has a couple of problems with rcp. I wonder why. Apparently, everything after the first colon is chopped off before rcp ever sees the filename. Hm. But this doesn't happen with ange-ftp, so what's wrong? Well, I

Re: Problem with rcp on NT

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 17 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now applied this patch. This patch will break things unless you also apply my patch from message [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I screwed up in the function 'rcp-handle-file-name-directory' and call 'rcp-make-rcp-file-name' with the user and

Re: Problem with vc-user-login-name

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, DE WEERD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my vc installation the vc-user-login-name advice does not work properly and I use: [... variant hack ...] The above is not very clean but it works since it looks at the file name. I do not remember where filename was defined. In

Re: Can't seem to defeat EFS

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman writes: Okay, I've got 1.180 now. The problem remains. Here is another backtrace. I am unable to spot the linkage from expand-file-name to efs-host-type. That's very odd. Can you try, painful

Re: Problem with filelist generated by vc-directory.

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, DE WEERD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a "list files locked by any user" (C-x v d or vc-directory) I get, when selecting a file: "The directory containing /r@ru:user@host:/foo1/foo2//foo1/foo2/file.foo does not exist." It has the same structure for the files that I

Re: beginner stumblings

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 08 Jan 2000, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08 Jan 2000, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I want to use ssh scp rsync. Do you want to use scp(1) or rsync(1) to transfer the files? They both do the same thing

[PATCH] Performance fix for XEmacs

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
For quite a while now I have had a real problem with the performance of inline methods while using rcp.el. This finally got to me enough to go and do some testing and all. The problem seems to be that when using a pty connection to an asynchronous subprocess, XEmacs 21.2 will write between 250K

[PATCH] Daily changes :) (was Re: rcp.el 1.164: bug fixes)

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had this too. Presumably it's the `find' in rcp-check-ls-commands. The `find' seems to come from cl, so perhaps there is a missing (require 'cl) somewhere. (although it would appear to be

[PATCH] Fix rcp-handle-write-region arguments for XEmacs/MULE

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
When using XEmacs/MULE, the seventh argument to write-region is a coding system to use when writing, not the test `confim-p'. This would cause XEmacs/MULE to prompt every time you wrote a file for confirmation. The attached patch makes this work by ignoring the final argument. Soon I will have

Re: beginner stumblings

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 08 Jan 2000, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I want to use ssh scp rsync. Do you want to use scp(1) or rsync(1) to transfer the files? They both do the same thing in the end (rsync is actually no faster, as I understand it) I don't see any "ssh" on the alist and scp appears

Re: Copying or renaming files across machines?

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 21 Nov 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should try to make copying and renaming files work across machine boundaries. Do you also think so? Er, yes? It seems that people have problems with backups and/or autosave files, so another alternative would be to try to

Re: [Fwd: Some stuff to improve life while using rcp]

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
that a couple of dozen versions ago there was a change to restore the window configuration after a VC checkin. [Checking...] Ah, the fix was from Daniel Pittman, in version 1.148. This is a VC problem I think. I use split windows and stuff. For a check-in, a new window is created to type the message

Re: Can I use rcp.el to copy a local file to several hosts ?

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Gerd Bavendiek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working as system admin. Very often I have to change config files on a couple of unix boxes. So I edit a local copy of e.g. /etc/hosts, copy the file to the targets and still have the master on my laptops disk. [...] So it

Re: Can't seem to defeat EFS

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jesse Marlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble preventing EFS from grabbing this: C-x C-f /r:me@host:/home/me/.emacs I have set rcp-default-method to: (setq rcp-default-method '"rcp") I do not specifically load EFS, it just seems to

Re: Remote directory tracking

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 17 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco suggested WIBNI remote shells executed via M-x rlogin or M-x telnet or M-x ssh or something would do remote directory tracking, so that doing C-x C-f in the shell buffer automatically uses rcp.el to load the file? I had a

Re: beginner stumblings

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 09 Jan 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's well worth noting, I think, that this software is not ready for the prime time yet. It's still mostly suitable for lisp hackers and all, the rough edges still being, well, rough. Right

[BUG] Something isn't right under XEmacs...

2000-05-11 Thread Daniel Pittman
My guess is that the coding system isn't right in the buffer. Daniel unset MAIL MAILCHECK MAILPATH 1/dev/null 2/dev/null set +o history 1/dev/null 2/dev/null PS1=' / '; PS2=''; PS3='' $ stty -echo $ $ $ / # Opening connection for danielp@bradbury using scp... #

Re: [BUG] Something isn't right under XEmacs...

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DI Maximilian Renkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mxrenkin@kastanie:~ # Initializing remote shell $ exec /bin/sh # Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up... exec /bin/sh^M mxrenkin@kastanie:~ # Setting up remote shell

Re: rcp.el, XEmacs and colons

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman writes: Hrm and double hrm. Can you give a simple recipe for reproducing the issue? I had a quick glance in my archives of the list but didn't find anything. (expand-file-name "/r:morse:.vm") A s

Re: rcp.el, XEmacs and colons

2000-05-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman writes: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete says that colons in rcp-file-format don't work for him, whereas Francisco and Daniel say they work fine. What can we do

Re: rcp.el, XEmacs and colons

2000-05-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete says that colons in rcp-file-format don't work for him, whereas Francisco and Daniel say they work fine. What can we do to find out why the colons don't work for Pete? The XEmacs versions used: PeteXEmacs

[PATCH] Fix connection problems for XEmacs/MULE.

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
The attached patch makes the connection setup work for me under XEmacs/MULE. Simply put, I presume that the system I am talking to is going to have dos-style line enders, and set the coding system for reading to match that. This shouldn't hurt anything under non-MULE code, being as it binds a

Re: [PATCH] Fix connection problems for XEmacs/MULE.

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still, I don't want to commit this without knowing that it at least works for a few people, and I really /don't/ understand how the MULE integration has been done in rcp. Well

Re: caching of file information?

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [[ complicated caching mechanism ]] Is the complicated mechanism really necessary, or can we make do with a fairly simple mechanism which caches information for a short

Re: Emacs 19

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Hm. I don't know if rcp.el works with Emacs 19. Hm. I did stuff so that it works without MULE, but that's for XEmacs. rcp.el doesn't work with Emacs 19/MULE 2.3. I stole some lisp

Re: configuration problem

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tom Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/24/00 7:28:28 AM But why doesn't it see the shell prompt? Hm. The shell prompt seems to be correct: newline followed by the slashes, followed by another newline. Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $Id: rcp.el,v 1.325 2000/05/15 19:49:53 grossjoh Exp $

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rcp.el works now if I change "exec " to "PS1='$ '; exec " in rcp-find-shell. I guess that rcp-open-connection-setup-interactive-shell will need the same change. I have now changed

Re: rcp.el name change?

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and then, the subject of name change comes up. Possibilities that I can think of: [...] * tramp: Transparent RAMP. Kudos to Pete Forman again. Pro: even better description of abilities. Con: potentially bad

Re: barebones webpage?

2000-05-24 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Instead, I am pointing to an HTML version of the RCP manual. Do you feel that this is sufficient (if the RCP manual is changed to include the interesting information near the top), or

Re: barebones webpage?

2000-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should rcp-handle-file-newer-than-file-p do if it is not possible to return the right information?

[RFC] Splitting VC interface for RCP to a distinct file.

2000-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
It seems to me, on consideration, that the VC integration of RCP could very well be split out into a separate file from the main body of the code, and automatically loaded if/when VC is. This makes sense to me because, aside from anything else, it seems awfully rude to (require 'vc) at the top

Re: $Id: rcp.el,v 1.325 2000/05/15 19:49:53 grossjoh Exp $

2000-05-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NB: Kai, the Emacs LISP reference specifically states that automatic coding system detection for asynchronous subprocesses is, er, unreliable. It claims that the detecti

Re: barebones webpage?

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that if you signal a continuable error, that would be best. At least it's semi-obvious that something

Re: detect process coding system

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kai Großjohann writes: Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought we were trying to cut down on traffic. Wouldn't something like "echo foo; echo bar" be adequate. The idea is that `ls -l /' will produce date

Re: barebones webpage?

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've got to read up on continuable errors, then. Is `file-error' a continuable error? Hmmm. Yes,

Re: detect process coding system

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again I'm unsure as to whether you're looking for date or EOL conventions. I don't use MULE. I wish I was sure. I think I'm confused by the whole thing. I know that we need to grok EOL

Re: detect process coding system

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think it would make sense to have a look at /etc/motd? That could shed some light on the coding used. Though I'm not sure if there are places where the coding for file _names_ is normally different from the coding for file

Re: barebones webpage?

2000-05-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks. Could you add rcsid ($Id$) to rcp.texi? I believe it is useful to sync the Japanese version with the English one. It's done already. :) Daniel -- Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former

[RFC] [PATCH] Implement `file-attributes' with perl(1)

2000-05-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
Attached is a patch that implements the `file-attributes' command on a remote machine using the perl(1) executable, if it was found. It should fall back to the ls(1) implementation if there is not a useful perl on the remote machine, although that part is not really tested. I don't want to drop

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Implement `file-attributes' with perl(1)

2000-05-27 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 27 May 2000, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel" == Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Get group and user name on any machine with perl. Last I checked, this is never used. The standard `file-attributes' does not have this `nonnumeric' argument and the r

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Implement `file-attributes' with perl(1)

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to drop this into the main source tree without some comment though. There are several good points to it: [...] I had a look at your patch and I like it, though I didn't

Re: rsync method: little problem

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my site, I need to invoke rsync like this when saving the buffer: rsync -e ssh --rsync-path /path/to/nonstd/bin/rsync localfile remotefile The problem is, /path/to/nonstd/bin/rsync might differ depending on the target host.

Re: emacs compatibility

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to check out the latest rcp.el on a Solaris client with GNU Emacs 20.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit), I have the following difficulties. [...] (2) nor is eval-when-feature. Oh, bugger. Hrm. I wonder what the FSF

Re: Questions about rcp.texi

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some questions about rcp.texi. Within these limitations, @rcp{} is quite powerful. It is worth noting that, as of the time of writing, it is far from a polished end-user product. For a while yet you should expect to run into

Re: locale, was: Questions about rcp.texi

2000-05-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Tom Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/28/00 8:29:23 PM Thanks for doing the translation, and I will act on some of the points you had trouble with and make them clearer, to try and avoid confusing more people. :) Hmm ... a

Re: file name coding system - and associated topics (including perl)

2000-05-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have known better than to upgrade to the newest rcp.el before getting on with my "real" work ... *grin* After I went to all that effort to put big threatening warnings into the documentation 'bout precisely this as well. ;)

Re: file name coding system

2000-05-29 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's a really thorny issue. I with there was a way to at least guess the right coding system in some cases, but that does not appear to be possible. Hrm. Yes. It certainly seems to have, er, issues with automatic

Re: file name coding system - and associated topics (including perl)

2000-05-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Daniel Pittman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bleh. I think that detecting the end of line convention is seriously broken. The coding system, yes, but the line endings should be fixed. I think. I think that the ide

Re: emacs compatibility

2000-05-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kai Großjohann writes: Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) base64.el[c] is not known to emacs; (2) nor is eval-when-feature. I have changed from eval-when-feature to eval-after-load. And base64 support is

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-05-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies for what may be another half-baked late-evening report. But I'm having repeatable trouble with filename completion in a long directory. Hrm. I couldn't get this to break on my Linux machine with around 6K files. Darn. Can you

Re: filename completion

2000-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Jun 2000 11:37:33 +1000 Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies for what may be another half-baked late-evening report. But I'm having repeatable trouble

Re: Emacs 19

2000-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. I just grepped all the *.el files and couldn't find save-current-buffer. I could find save-excursion, save-window-excursion, and save-match-data, though. A typo? Sorry for unsufficient

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.372 2000/06/01 22:41:21 grossjoh Exp $); `EOF during parsing' error on first use of any connection

2000-06-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Execmail for Win32 5.1 Build (9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" I got that (`End of file during parsing'), too, and it happened at the same

Re: filename completion

2000-06-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as a little sanity check: if you try `find /fs ...' and that hangs, what happens when you do `cd /fs; find . ...'? It hangs too (in fact that's what I've been doing all the time). Right. This is starting to make sense, I think.

Re: help with rcp problem?

2000-05-31 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tom Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/31/00 3:26:03 PM Can you please (setq rcp-debug-buffer t), then try again and send the contents of the *debug rcp/foo* buffer? FWIW: to improve/ease support, perhaps it would be wise to implement

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.372 2000/06/01 22:41:21 grossjoh Exp $); `EOF during parsing' error on first use of any connection

2000-06-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Mark A. Hershberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ tramp_test_nt () { test -n "`find $1 -prune -newer $2 -print`" } # Looking for remote executable `/bin/perl5' $ test -x /bin/perl5 ; echo $? I got that (`End of file during

Re: Filename completion

2000-06-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 3 Jun 2000, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Joe" == Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 2. Is there another problem with filename completion too? If I do it completely locally, for example with "tramp.", I can if I press TAB often enough, get it to offer me "tramp.el",

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.368 2000/05/31 22:24:21 grossjoh Exp $); tramp-check-ls-command error

2000-06-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 03 Jun 2000, Hal Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 2. Now I can load a file from a remote host into a buffer, but when I try to save it after editing, I get: tramp-handle-write-region: LOCKNAME must be nil or equal FILENAME This is with tramp updated from CVS a few minutes before

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.376'

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if you have trouble with filenames with grep(1) meta-characters in them, please let me know the filename. I *hope* that I quote the argument to it right, but it's always hard

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.379'

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 4 Jun 2000, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Owns" == Owns all emacs-rcp files in CVS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It also refuses, point blank, to create a symbolic link across hosts. Please don't ! Symbolic links can contain *any* data. [...] Stefan On Sun, 04 Jun

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.378'

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Yes. It seems that AIX and IRIX are the problematic systems, and I even found both grep and fgrep on AIX. FWIW, the type of remote systems that I was thinking of when I wrote this were WinNT machines with a small set of the

Re: backtrace of possible tramp bug

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 04 Jun 2000, Mark A. Hershberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "KG" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, please consider adding /usr/freeware/bin to the list of directories searched on remote machines. That is where mimencode is located on the IRIX machine I am

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.368 2000/05/31 22:24:21 grossjoh Exp $); tramp-check-ls-command error

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 04 Jun 2000, Hal Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Hal Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Still getting the LOCKNAME error on save, but I haven't read thru emails yet to see if there's a suggested fix. Kai checked a change into CVS not

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.368 2000/05/31 22:24:21 grossjoh Exp $); tramp-check-ls-command error

2000-06-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 04 Jun 2000, Hal Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the filename that you are writing contain a `~` character? I think that the lockname needs to be `~`-expanded before the comparison

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.383'

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log Message: Use 'find' internal filtering when listing files for completion on the remote machine, rather than piping through fgrep. This should, hopefully, tickle automount bugs less often (as well as not depending on fgrep on the

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.383'

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Pete Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman writes: On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log Message: Use 'find' internal filtering when listing files for completion on the remote machine, rather than piping through fgrep

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.383'

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gah. Does it support any option to allow limiting the recursion it does? I can't see any indication of such on the man page. *nod* I just went and hunted it out from Sun. :) Daniel, can you put me out of my misery and tell me why the

File name completion, done to death.

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
People, a new check-in with the bestest little find(1) tricks I could work out. It does the same thing as '-maxdepth' without it. If people could beat on this one and let me know if it works. Also, a small advertisement: If anyone can give me shell access to any of the various Unix machines

Re: File name completion, done to death.

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, a new check-in with the bestest little find(1) tricks I could work out. It does the same thing as '-maxdepth' without it. If people could beat on this one and let me know if it works. Oh dear, not quite, I'm afraid.

[PATCH] File name completion with ls(1) and sh(1).

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
Well, it turns out that cleaning really *is* that boring. I got to thinking about what could be done to fix the find(1) problems and ended up with the attached patch. This threw away two thirds of the code in `...-file-name-all-completions', so I am actually quite happy 'bout it. Could you give

Re: [PATCH] File name completion with ls(1) and sh(1).

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 05 Jun 2000, Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it turns out that cleaning really *is* that boring. I got to thinking about what could be done to fix the find(1) problems and ended up with the attached patch. [...] Which, of course, has a bug in it. If you happen to have

Re: LOCKNAME workaround

2000-06-05 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 06 Jun 2000, Hal Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'm still getting the LOCKNAME error reported recently, with tramp.el 1.388. Sorry to have been quiet, I am hoping to soon have access to a machine where I can debug this issue directly. Do you have enough knowledge of Lisp to debug

Re: feature freeze?

2000-06-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be a good idea to try for a feature freeze and just fix bugs, right now. I'd like to get Tramp into Emacs 21, if possible, and it better be stable when we do that. I think somebody was aiming at getting it into

Re: check in by daniel: 'tramp/lisp tramp.el,1.383'

2000-06-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Stefan Monnier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ GNU find has been fairly buggy in my experience ] Goodness. Well, it's good that Daniel has implemented something which works without find and does not suffer from command length

Re: suggestion for making cvs updates one step easier

2000-06-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 08 Jun 2000, Matt Swift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually adding it to .cvsignore does not change the behavior of 'cvs update', it will still download MANIFEST after 'make clean' has deleted it. It needs to be removed from CVS as well. Consider that done. :) Daniel -- The youth

Re: Problem with tramp/scp on NT Emacs

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Jun 2000, Glenn Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14 Jun 2000, Glenn Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] That is not a good thing, I believe. Try giving the '-t' argument to ssh, which may

Re: Modifying buffer name to contain name of host etc?

2000-06-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Jun 2000, Glenn Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got TRAMP working from an NT client (see previous post), Glad to hear it. I'd like to be able to have "remote" buffers marked in some way; at the moment the buffer name is simply the file name. Er... That isn't TRAMP

Re: Japanese copyright

2000-06-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I just did it, and added the following statement for English people. But I don't have any confident in my English writing. Does anyone make sure it is right? It is correct, yes.

Re: Problem with tramp/scp on NT Emacs

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 14 Jun 2000, Glenn Proctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you run ssh as an Emacs subprocess and get an interactive shell on the remote system? If not, TRAMP will not work quite right, I fear. Hmm - when I try this I get "Pseudo-ter

Re: RCS checkin over tramp

2000-06-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 28 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problems running vc/rcs over tramp. When I try to check in changes I sometimes get this error in the echo area: Command rcsdiff returned status 2. Running `rcsdiff'...FAILED (status 2) And then a buffer pops up displaying these error messages:

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); tramp doesn't seem to work with ediff

2000-07-26 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed tramp with the intent of using it to edit and compare remote (via ssh/scp) and local copies of files that have gotten out of sync with one another. Ediff is my preferred method for this. [...] Once upon a time

Re: telnet method to NeXT

2000-07-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuji Yamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ /bin/ls -lnd /; echo $? drwxrwxrwt 13 root1024 Apr 2 12:19 / 0 $ It is okay. -n option works fine. Sorry for my misunderstanding. ls with -n option doesn't work on your

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, unfortunately I think this is probably not a bug, but a configuration problem. Anyway, What version of perl have you on the remote machine, and can you put the content of the tramp buffer in mail? Daniel --

Re: telnet method to NeXT

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Jul 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Er. Not quite. If you don't have an ls that supports '-n' for numeric UID/GID values, and you don't have a usable perl5 on the remote machine, things may go very wrong with 'file-attributes

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