From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: typo in tramp manual
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:37:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efy2hjbu.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3wag7vu.fsf@detlef> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:29:57 +0100")
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:29:57 +0100 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
>> 5.1 TRAMP file name conventions
>> ===============================
>>
>> To log in to the remote host as a specific user, you use the
>> syntax ‘/user@host:path/to.file’. That means that connecting to
>> ‘melancholia’ as ‘daniel’ and editing ‘.emacs’ in your home
>> directory you would specify ‘/daniel@melancholia:.emacs’.
>>
>> I believe the example given would edit '.emacs/ in DANIEL's home
>> directory.
>
> Why do you believe this? Usually, nobody owns a directory ".emacs/". But
> it is common for a file ".emacs" to exist in a home directory.
I think "'.emacs/" is a typo for "'.emacs'" and Allan meant the doc
should read "... connecting to ‘melancholia’ as ‘daniel’ and editing
‘.emacs’ in Daniel's home directory ...".
^^^^^^^^
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-12 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 0:24 typo in tramp manual allan gottlieb
2017-03-12 9:29 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 10:37 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2017-03-12 11:18 ` Michael Albinus
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