From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apologia for bzr Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:08:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87y52tg8ug.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140103152117.GA16679@c3po> <20140104082857.GA22010@thyrsus.com> <20140105205645.GA12781@thyrsus.com> <8738l2gcot.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877gadri5m.fsf@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388974138 13534 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 02:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 03:09:05 2014 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 1Vzzcj-0001yO-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:09:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzzci-0007CD-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzzcf-0007Br-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzzce-00034C-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzzce-000348-Lz; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58144 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzzce-0002uP-AZ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:08:56 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F28DFE0501; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 03:08:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <877gadri5m.fsf@mac.com> (Eric Brown's message of "Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:52:21 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:167426 Archived-At: Eric Brown writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Why would you do that? >> >> It's so much easier and faster to just do >> >> C-x C-f /ssh:user@hostname.netword:myfile.c RET >> >> and you don't even need an Emacs on the other end of the connection. >> Similarly for editing things like >> >> C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/fstab RET > > As an example of where this does not work, I must use Citrix software to > connect the my server. Unfortunately, I do not have direct ssh access. Tramp can be configured to use a lot of different transfer methods. As long as you have any kind of remote shell access... > Also, does this transfer the file to a local temporary directory? If > the edited files are large/manifold, this could be a problem. If bandwidth is scarce, a transparent X session will be awful too. -- David Kastrup