From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in tramp manual
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:29:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3wag7vu.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shmj735r.fsf@nyu.edu> (allan gottlieb's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:24:32 -0500")
allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
Hi Alan,
> 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 also think "path/to.file" is less commonly used in the docs than
> path/to/file.
Indeed. I've changed it.
> allan
Best regards, Michael.
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2017-03-12 0:24 typo in tramp manual allan gottlieb
2017-03-12 9:29 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-03-12 10:37 ` Stephen Berman
2017-03-12 11:18 ` Michael Albinus
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