Your explanation of syntax much clearer than the manual document. Thanks. > Urgh, I'm losing track of what you want here, at any rate, with ssh as > default-method :-
I suspect I got confused on the relation of ssh and ftp. I thought the choice was between unaided ftp and ftp using the ssh protocol, not simply ftp or ssh. > Haines> Incidentally, when I do this experiment, it messes up > Haines> emacs so that I can't start rmail and various commands > Haines> don't work. I have to restart emacs to continue. > > I've never heard of this before although one of the tramp gurus may > have had the problems while experimenting. At any rate, check your > *Messages* buffer to check that tramp is loading and is being > used. If not and you've required tramp in your .emacs then it sounds > like tramp is not being loaded : try tramp-version to make sure. Strange. The *Messages* buffer tells me ispell is loaded, but nothing about tramp being loaded. On the other hand, M-x tramp-version returns 2.0.42. So it seems that emacs is tramp aware, but not loading it. It is very useful to know that emacs must load tramp initially. I think I'd best continue these experiments on my new setup, because if emacs is broken, then any results may be meaningless. I'll put the tramp statements in the ~./emacs file on the new setup, and then try to use tramp with ssh and get back to you with the result. Thanks for your patient consideration. Haines _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
