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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change Tramp syntax
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:50:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9wc83kh.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2shlo9k93.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue,  04 Apr 2017 10:04:56 -0700")

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

Hi John,

>> This is the essence of my question: Does it solve the problem for some, at a
>> cost to others? What is the new user experience if they fail to use "ssh:"?
>> Is it obvious what they've done wrong and how to fix it?
>
> Michael, I'd still like an answer to these questions, please. I'm concerned
> about how this change is going to affect users who aren't as aware of Tramp
> and its workings. Thanks! Alternatively, if we implement a compat translation
> that is on by default for at least a few versions, it would resolve these
> questions as well.

If people do a simple "C-x C-f /localhost:" from an Emacs started with
-Q, they get an error "File not found and directory
write-protected". Tramp cannot do anything else, because it is not
involved.

If there is a file name completion package active (ido, icomplete,
whatever), they get a guidance while typing the filename, latest when
the trailing ":" has been typed.

If a user tries to complete a filename, even if only plain Emacs is
called with -Q, she gets a guidance. Typing "/ l o c <TAB>" does not
complete to anything.

Well, this decision is a trade-off between my permanent frustration of
not working parts of Tramp (and being blamed for this when I tried to
find a solution), and limiting users with a changed syntax. If you call
me guilty, then I'm guilty for not doing this change 15 years ago.

I believe it won't be too much bad feedback after people have understood
the change. Some years ago, the obscure /multi:ssh:host1:ssh:host2:
syntax was removed, even w/o an alternative. Later, the alternative
/ssh:host1|ssh:host2: was introduced. People did accept.

Of course, I'm biased, and there might have been a lot of frustration
from people because of that change. But then it didn't reach me.

Adding pure ange-ftp like syntax, as I have offered, seems to be a good
compromise for all of us.

And please take also into account, that I mean it seriously: if you
insist in keeping the syntax as it was, I will insist in seeing other
people working on Tramp. I'm the lonely maintainer since 2004, and there
are no remarkable contributions from somebody else except tramp-adb.el,
written by Juergen Hoetzel.

> Thanks,

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-04 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20170309184458.08C9725FCF@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-03-10  8:43   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 37b88d7: Fix bug#23006 Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 10:00     ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-10 10:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 10:32         ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-10 10:57           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 14:14             ` Change Tramp syntax (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 37b88d7: Fix bug#23006) Michael Albinus
2017-03-10 15:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-03 15:54                 ` Change Tramp syntax John Wiegley
2017-04-03 17:00                   ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-03 23:14                     ` John Wiegley
2017-04-03 23:35                       ` Drew Adams
2017-04-04  8:46                       ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-04 16:46                         ` John Wiegley
2017-04-04 16:59                           ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-04 19:44                             ` John Wiegley
2017-04-06 19:12                               ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-07  5:27                                 ` John Wiegley
2017-04-08 16:43                                   ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-13 18:00                                     ` John Wiegley
2017-04-07 13:52                                 ` Filipp Gunbin
2017-04-07 14:02                                   ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-08 16:41                                   ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-09 19:18                                     ` Talking about Lisp symbols Richard Stallman
2017-04-10 13:43                                     ` Change Tramp syntax Filipp Gunbin
2017-04-10 16:18                                     ` Teemu Likonen
2017-04-10 16:45                                       ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-10 18:03                                         ` Teemu Likonen
2017-04-04 17:04                       ` John Wiegley
2017-04-04 17:50                         ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-04-04 21:08                           ` John Wiegley
2017-04-04  7:09                     ` Andreas Schwab
2017-03-10 16:56               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-11 19:44                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-11 20:08                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-11 20:31                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 15:18                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-12 18:30                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 22:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-13 17:23                           ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-13 17:30                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-13 17:35                               ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-14  3:38                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-14  9:06                                   ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-14 14:13                                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-14 16:11                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-14 15:58                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-11 21:54                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-12  9:10                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 17:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-12 18:43                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-12 21:50                           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-13  7:23                             ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-10 10:30       ` [Emacs-diffs] master 37b88d7: Fix bug#23006 Dmitry Gutov
2017-03-10 10:36         ` Michael Albinus
2017-03-10 13:44           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-03-10 10:34       ` Stefan Monnier

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