At 2007-04-23 14:46 +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> plink would not work at first because tramp-default-user-alist makes
> it pick up user-login-name (my Windows username) when I want it to use
> tramp-default-user (my UNIX username). So I Customized the alist to
> remove the remsh...plink entry.
Both `tramp-default-user-alist' and `tramp-default-user' are
_proposals_ only. There is no good default which your remote user name
could be but your local user name ...
Ah but there is ;-) I had used tramp-default-user to specify the
remote user name used by most of my accounts. A single default can
make sense if only one protocol family is used predominantly. That
being said I agree that tramp-default-user should be deprecated in
favor of tramp-default-user-alist.
In fact Tramp expects that a user specifies his remote user name
either in the file name. Or that the user adds its own default to
`tramp-default-user-alist'.
Okay.
`add-to-list' inserts by default at the beginning of the list; your
own settings have priority over Tramp's settings. So there is no need
to nukenize `tramp-default-user-alist'.
It's just that when I come to Customize tramp-default-user-alist I'm
presented with a mismatch and raw lisp for a value. It is my
understanding that a variable declared with defcustom is a User Option
and should not be modified by the code. add-to-list is called in
several places. One way to handle that is to have a new ordinary
variable that gets its initial value from tramp-default-user-alist
and then is added to. No doubt there are more elegant alternatives.
> plinkx is working too.
>
> Perhaps I should not be using tramp-default-user. There is a warning
> in its doc about mucking up some config files.
The "plinkx" method does not pass "-u user" to the plink command. So
it shouldn't harm. `tramp-default-user' would be used only if set and
if the corresponding PuTTY session does not specify a user. Given that
"plinkx" is _intended_ to reuse defined PuTTY sessions, I don't see a
big problem.
My second paragraph was talking about plink, not plinkx; we agree.
In fact `tramp-default-user' is kept for backwards compatibility
reasons only.
I see. Maybe you could tweak its doc to emphasize that.
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