From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24665: 25.1; Confusing documentation of Tramp methods Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:29:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvibcef1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476185432 1198 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2016 11:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:30:32 +0000 (UTC) To: 24665@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 13:30:28 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1btvGF-0007H9-Sd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btvGE-0006cQ-Cf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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While the performance is good, it is slower than the inline methods for smaller files. Though there is no overhead of encoding and decoding of the inline methods, ‘scp’’s cryptographic handshake negates those speed gains. [...] ‘pscp’—‘plink’ and ‘pscp’ ‘psftp’—‘plink’ and ‘psftp’ These methods are similar to ‘scp’ or ‘sftp’, but they use the ‘plink’ command to connect to the remote host, and they use ‘pscp’ or ‘psftp’ for transferring the files. These programs are part of PuTTY, an SSH implementation for Windows. This seems to say that a file name like the following should work: /pscp-plink:username@hostname:filename But in reality, Tramp says 'Unknown method "pscp-plink"'. Using just "pscp" does work. So it seems like the above doesn't mean to say I should use "pscp-plink" literally. But what _does_ it mean? I didn't find any clues neither in the Tramp manual nor in the doc string of tramp-methods. 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