From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apologia for bzr Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:52:21 -0600 Message-ID: <877gadri5m.fsf@mac.com> References: <20140103152117.GA16679@c3po> <20140104082857.GA22010@thyrsus.com> <20140105205645.GA12781@thyrsus.com> <8738l2gcot.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388979248 30278 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 03:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 03:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 04:34:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W00xB-0007qV-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 04:34:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W00xA-00073P-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:34:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzzMr-0001iB-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzzMl-0007yn-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from st11p00mm-asmtpout002.mac.com ([17.172.81.1]:39514 helo=st11p00mm-asmtp002.mac.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzzMf-0007w5-PQ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from air (c-50-151-36-62.hsd1.in.comcast.net [50.151.36.62]) by st11p00mm-asmtp002.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.08(7.0.4.27.7) 64bit (built Aug 22 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0MYY00LJ7IJ91450@st11p00mm-asmtp002.mac.com>; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:52:23 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.87,1.0.14,0.0.0000 definitions=2014-01-05_03:2014-01-03, 2014-01-05, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=2 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1308280000 definitions=main-1401050237 In-reply-to: <8738l2gcot.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 17.172.81.1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:34:10 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167431 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Why would you do that? > > It's so much easier and faster to just do > > C-x C-f /ssh:user@hostname.netword:myfile.c RET > > and you don't even need an Emacs on the other end of the connection. > Similarly for editing things like > > C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/fstab RET As an example of where this does not work, I must use Citrix software to connect the my server. Unfortunately, I do not have direct ssh access. Also, does this transfer the file to a local temporary directory? If the edited files are large/manifold, this could be a problem. (Citrix is mandated by my employer, and its unlikely they will be moved to change. I'm grateful that I can access free software albeit via this proprietary mechanism.)