From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x rlogin Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:12 -0500 Message-ID: <55mwuw8687.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361563531 12757 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2013 20:05:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 21:05:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8ysT-0004nF-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:05:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8ys8-0005cz-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8yrx-0005MI-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8yrq-0003Yd-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8yrq-0003YZ-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8yro-0004nK-9r; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:05:12 -0500 X-Spook: Steve Case afsatcom Reno Venezuela Rubin class struggle X-Ran: 86g3#3|*>:!=V|[rrD)n_Oh\p/KxxwkHs;B),]2y1tV^e&A294W]tWV+\CnbX(61f+`!$\ X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157268 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Is M-x rlogin obsolete? > (Is rlogin obsolete?) I guess rlogin is superseded by ssh almost everywhere. Maybe a few places are still using rlogin to connect internally between trusted hosts where encryption is not needed. Whether rlogin.el is obsolete, I dunno. You can use it with ssh by doing: emacs -Q --eval '(setq rlogin-program "slogin" rlogin-explicit-args (list "-t" "-t"))' -f rlogin Does this offer anything that M-x shell followed by ssh, or Tramp, doesn't? Probably not.