Re: Two tramp questions

[henry atting <henry@literaturlatenight.de>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > I use tramp to edit remote or root files. Although I've read
>> > tramp works well with ido-mode I don't understand it. If ido (or
>> > icicles) is enabled the moment I start typing '/ssh:...'  into
>> > the the minibuffer a tramp process is started and dies right
>> > away.
>>
>> This is why I started using iswitchb mode instead.  The processes
>> wouldn't die, on the other hand they would be going and tie up the
>> entire Emacs session.  That was worse ;)  iswitchb-mode works really
>> well: it does not enforce completion in situations like this, only on
>> buffers.  I found the file-finding of icicles and ido-mode to just
>> slow me down.
>
> In response to a specific bug report, the Tramp developer (Michael Albinus)
> and I recently worked on making Tramp and Icicles play well together. Ido
> also has a good deal of code that tries to make it get along well with
> Tramp.
>
> It is always better to report a specific bug than to ignore a problem you
> encounter. Even if you don't really care whether something works, others
> might benefit from reporting the problem. Please try the latest version of
> Icicles and let me know if you encounter a problem with Tramp. Thx.

I installed the latest version and it works fine. Great!

Thanks
henry