From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrate Tramp Date: 21 Jun 2002 01:02:53 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xy9d9h7tu.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200206171631.g5HGVBM13861@aztec.santafe.edu> <200206190223.g5J2NlQ15963@aztec.santafe.edu> <200206201434.g5KEYru18709@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024610595 20641 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2002 22:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17LA1L-0005Mo-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:03:15 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17LATC-0001QY-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:32:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LA1E-00016J-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LA0Z-00015J-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 40D8B7C016; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:02:13 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5027 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > ... And for the multi-hop methods, the hops could be separated by > comma and the "hop" part could be separated by "#", ... > > This is pretty good, except that I would like a visually stronger > connection between the two hops. How about a `pipe' symbol, | ? > The `pipe' symbol provides the added useful connotation that you are > tunneling through one system to get to another. > > Here are two multi-hop connections that I want to make: > > /[multi]smx#bob@fencepost.gnu.org|su#bob@titan.berkshire.net:/home/bob/www > > /[multi]smx-2#bob@24.161.120.95|smx-2#bob@192.168.0.4:/home/bob/ This looks nice, but I think it could be simplified even further if the presence of `|' implicitly specifies the multi-hop method: /[smx]bob@fencepost.gnu.org|[su]bob@titan.berkshire.net:/home/bob/www /[smx-2]bob@24.161.120.95|[smx-2]bob@192.168.0.4:/home/bob/ If not already possible, I think it would be really nice if the "remote-method-alist" allows the specification of abbreviations, e.g. so that /titan:/... is equivalent to /[smx]bob@fencepost.gnu.org|[su]bob@titan.berkshire.net:/... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk