From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Disabling Tramp Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:03:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <422E4F9B.3020704@wyrdrune.com> <87sm3572yy.fsf@gmx.de> <87fyz5osds.fsf@emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110377145 17060 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 14:05:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 15:05:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D91oP-0004Mk-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9235-0000mf-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D922P-0000kG-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D922L-0000he-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D922L-0000gA-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:19:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D91me-00033v-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 75279 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2005 14:03:30 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Mar 2005 14:03:30 -0000 Original-To: kai@emptydomain.de (=?utf-8?q?Kai_Gro=C3=9Fjohann?=) In-Reply-To: <87fyz5osds.fsf@emptydomain.de> ( =?utf-8?q?Kai_Gro=C3=9Fjohann's_message_of?= "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:34:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34376 kai@emptydomain.de (Kai Gro=C3=9Fjohann) writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > >> BTW, would it be possible to mention _why_ tramp is better than >> ange-ftp...? > > I think that's difficult because Tramp isn't better. It does a > different job. The way I see it, it does the same job (access remote files), but has more ways (as you mention) to do it than ange-ftp. > One can remove the Tramp entries from file-name-handler-alist and > re-add the Ange-FTP entries there. But it's also possible to just > type "/ftp:user@host:/some/file" as the filename, or to set > tramp-default-method, as Michael mentioned. Setting tramp-default-method is cleary the easiest way, so it might be good to mention just that in NEWS. --=20 Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk