From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "aartist" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: edit remote html file Date: 28 Nov 2006 13:05:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1164747921.784494.291300@14g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <87irihed4d.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164750127 13067 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2006 21:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 28 22:42:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpAi8-00057N-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpAi7-0001Sc-Gq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:41:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!14g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.27.249.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1164747927 13352 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2006 21:05:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:05:27 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87irihed4d.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 14g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.27.249.220; posting-account=bnXY7g0AAADX1jdCvJidxQUPIJp2L58F Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143459 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39066 Archived-At: I use C-x C-f /user@host:/dir/file Note the ':' after host. Hadron Quark wrote: > I followed the tramp wiki but think I'm barking up the wrong tree. tramp > seems to be for unix machines talking to each other. My web host is a > windows machine. > > I have a web site at a host "host.com" > > normally I just issue the eamcs ftp command "ftp host.com" and then > put/get etc in the ftp shell which results. I have a .netrc to simplify > things. > > But whats the best way to edit the remote file directly without > specifically opening an ftp shell get'ting, editing and then put'ting? > > > I had C-x C-f /ftp:user@host.com/index.html but I get a time out. > > Suggestions or pointers gratefully appreciated. I'm not sure if Tramp is > what I want.