Re: Disabling Tramp

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Kai Gro?johann wrote:
 > Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
 >>It's generally agreed that the user should be able to enable and disable
 >>features at will.  Should Tramp be a global minor mode a la
 >>auto-compression-mode and auto-image-file-mode?
 >
 > Disabling Ange-FTP works the same as disabling Tramp: You can remove
 > the entry from file-name-handler-alist, or you can prefix the filename
 > with "/:".
 >
 > Are you mentioning this now because you believe that Tramp is somehow
 > different?  Could you explain what makes it different?

Not different, just difficult -- as difficult as ange-ftp:

(setq file-name-handler-alist
       (delq (rassq 'ange-ftp-hook-function file-name-handler-alist)
             file-name-handler-alist))
(setq file-name-handler-alist
       (delq (rassq 'ange-ftp-completion-hook-function 
file-name-handler-alist)
             file-name-handler-alist))

I think users who want to disable ange-ftp would appreciate having that
wrapped in a command, plus a command to re-enable it.  And similarly for
Tramp.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers