Re: hostname and filename as frame title

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Friday 12 February 2010 03:58 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>
> Hi,
>
>> However because of all the different machines and different usernames, I
>> rely on my ~/.ssh/config to specify the username on the remote machine.
>> So I open a remote file like this,
>>
>> `/ssh:remote-host-alias:/path/to/file'
>>
>> Probably that is why the frame title shows up as,
>>
>> `local-user@remote-host:file'
>
> Yes. Tramp does not know the application specific configuration.
>
>> But I think I can live with that. Thanks a lot Michael. :)
>
> So either you obmit the user part in the frame title (it is of no use
> for you then), or you write your own small function which extracts it
> from ~/.ssh/config.

Yes I ended up commenting that one out. :) Trying to write a function to 
extract the username from ~/.ssh/config would be a good exercise in lisp 
for a newbie like me. Thanks, I appreciate the help.

>
> Best regards, Michael.


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