Re: using emacs/efs with@ in username

[bojohan@helm.dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

andrew dunn <info@myperl.cc> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ive been using XEmacs now with my own server for quite some time,
> opening and saving documents remotely using the format:
> /user@domain.com:/file.html
>
> Recently Ive had to start editing files on a server that includes the @
> symbol in the username (e.g. 'user@domain.com'), which seems to make it
> impossible to open files correctly.
>
> The format for opening now becomes:
> /user@domain.com@domain.com:/file.html
>
> As you'd expect this doesn't work because it doesn't know which @ symbol
> is part of the username, and which one separates the user from the
> domain. I hope this is clear what my problem is, and there is some kind
> of simple solution.


You might be able to work around this with efs-set-user (I don't use
XEmacs (and this is gnu.emacs.help, after all)).

,----
| EFS supplies a few interactive commands to make connecting with
| hosts a little easier.
| 
| Command `efs-set-user': Prompts for a hostname and a username.  Next
| time access to the host is attempted, EFS will attempt to log in again
| with the new username.
`----

/Johan