From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24665: 25.1; Confusing documentation of Tramp methods Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:53:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87funwqu16.fsf@gmx.de> References: <83mvibcef1.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaww8u3i.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476626124 30155 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2016 13:55:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:55:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 24665-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 16 15:55:21 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 1bvlu9-00069T-J4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:53:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87vaww8u3i.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2016 11:40:49 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:wg5WFvh19l56rqZoRKLzN2T8jmnSQOGGJ9h1Gsk1zz2pLcAd8W+ I48inGZQXtIKynOwT9RZND4pICbfnp4hhFMwOd6acJdGLMZCbyD84ImXHEsuuX22WVVWf48 kI4IRcOItB+FmRrr+cEkOgLw9PhTmGdXuCDs15x7VqR55d6PZycclJojWOqsCbwd+bVmept YVRV/hCn7HlNRJPtI0+Cg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:mhNVMVeW1RA=:Ed7lvuh+6LTN6qIrKG+Jf6 c7HgkIsath9eTw/Jag6nFpFO4mNN8gswkLRUOqnBOjmqALDdm65ZlvQamL/5MR0759e2IwWHW x1T/fMb8Nc+5fwj6tWh5qaetiF+Cy4YEP045AYVhvzg1OCsjFHAzfeNUJA9Uuh1depI2D6RW+ Ke2yxPi07gStRj5IljsxIeMVgL232fdy0LQswhZWm9mV1uThEiAjWi0IsvffMqdqw/NEVFhgM xpAgUH6eKGOzqkd3psJa/SbxH6yudWhgV/62RujLIjZR/Y38BBhSU19ImUFWsF8MaG/NJP1UX A4sWkwz0dyPEho//YAOXKqOQVLAkhvkuijxdL1R+gSTrRKMphdLgux0DFYyUE/TNtGBsBPTNa hh+Kuhc8dU+1hC7A8IrNnANHnrZFIU/d1gNP+PaGhqdjXm7Z/o0QDtOjgtCd4FWylBQLPR/30 /46e/xzvJO8PeRp0fPeAB7ZE+UeBzHeC5L9uNT++DhuBMH5uhxHk4ZO5tX5S8+mk4mhkX/axH RX8Ic2BsiZxxworC7YeU79tMOj4pNsAxmN4ZxGwhay8SjCELMx2eJ0An9e5f79gEdfTg48rvc SNlIFWJFg0jV9hSTgt7qxIO5l30icZ7xqKZ04NjoQQRLs5K5tmhnJrGKNFGNsI/fM5vLnHsck RFXimT54XIxP/gIHMpeEEPZztjRjoPu0zNsyasgmwrYVPqXAq15P4ZtaDfXIt5HmC60IS26rm ZsN1sToZOF8It9YEopVuuLhAovIx6fPSi0JzqxvkHK3dmVfNAaxO5ZmwmeewBHlE6tgvHFu9 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:124545 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: >> 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. > > I confirm it might confuse people (though this is part of the Tramp > manual more than 15 years, longer than I am engaged with Tramp :-) > > Will fix it in the master branch. The emacs-25 branch contains Tramp > 2.2, which is in maintenance mode, and shall see serious bug fixes for > Tramp only. Fixed, closing the bug. Best regards, Michael.