From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ange-ftp problem Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:04:50 -0600 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: References: <1166459629.767200.122160@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <8b1d1$4587723b$49f11be$14990@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166542829 7485 80.91.229.10 (19 Dec 2006 15:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 19 16:40:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gwh4q-00072V-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gwh4p-0005Y6-Tc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:40:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!208.49.83.146!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Trace: b0e504587ffa0a13a050118672 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144142 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:39745 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" wrote in message news:8b1d1$4587723b$49f11be$14990@DIALUPUSA.NET... > > "Lennart Borgman" wrote in message > news:mailman.2088.1166486649.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... [...] > > > > I have never been able to make the ftp.exe that comes with MS Windows > > (you are using that aren't you?) to work with Emacs. See > > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AngeFtp > > > > > > I can get this ftp.exe from the emacswiki to work in a dos window but not > through Emacs. I read: > > 331 User myusername okay, need password. > > But this is not really correct since my user name itself needs an @ sign > in it and this interferes with the parsing of the entire argument to C-x > C-f , including a second @ sign after the user name. > Is there some way around this problem? > > Thanks, > Ed > Thanks, all. By running custom on a couple of ange-ftp settings I was able to access the webspace through Emacs: '(ange-ftp-default-password "password") '(ange-ftp-default-user "username@isp.com") I don't like the password in plaintext even in .emacs but I suppose that line could be taken out and I would be prompted for the password interactively. Of course rtfm is always excellent advice as long as we don't require that the user first know as much about Emacs as RMS does before she dares to ask a question. I assume that Tramp has something to do with remote file transfer. I've head the term before but I didn't ask about that. I just wanted to use ftp through Emacs instead of having to go through WS_FTP and now I can (on msw98 - Emacs 21.3, no less). Apparently the ftp.exe distributed with mswin was at fault.