From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: typo in tramp manual
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:18:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9x6agln.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efy2hjbu.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:37:25 +0100")
Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
Hi Stephen,
>>> 5.1 TRAMP file name conventions
>>> ===============================
>>>
>>> To log in to the remote host as a specific user, you use the
>>> syntax ‘/user@host:path/to.file’. That means that connecting to
>>> ‘melancholia’ as ‘daniel’ and editing ‘.emacs’ in your home
>>> directory you would specify ‘/daniel@melancholia:.emacs’.
>>>
>>> I believe the example given would edit '.emacs/ in DANIEL's home
>>> directory.
>>
>> Why do you believe this? Usually, nobody owns a directory ".emacs/". But
>> it is common for a file ".emacs" to exist in a home directory.
>
> I think "'.emacs/" is a typo for "'.emacs'" and Allan meant the doc
> should read "... connecting to ‘melancholia’ as ‘daniel’ and editing
> ‘.emacs’ in Daniel's home directory ...".
> ^^^^^^^^
I see, thanks. However, this seems to be corrected already in both Tramp
2.2.13 and 2.3.1. Allan seems to use an older Tramp version.
> Steve Berman
Best regards, Michael.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 0:24 typo in tramp manual allan gottlieb
2017-03-12 9:29 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 10:37 ` Stephen Berman
2017-03-12 11:18 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
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