From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org list" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Saving a remote buffer into a local file
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:37:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0g3zLXE15md9iXWq0L7OtWGihMACv-iCTEdnTBcUvbtCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0jx649eL5t8P-hv_EoebpKUynqGOaiMp6i+jdZtUvNWCg@mail.gmail.com>
> I think it would be nice to have some special syntax, so that I can
> specify a path in my local host (and avoid the cumbersome
> "/localuser@localhost:/localpath").
>
> Is there such a syntax?
Answering myself: Yes, it seems so: Just quote the local path with "/:":
C-x C-w /:~/file2
This feature is documented in the Emacs manual. Node "Quoted File Names".
Thanks.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 9:07 Saving a remote buffer into a local file Dani Moncayo
2017-01-24 9:37 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2017-01-24 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-24 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-25 8:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-01-25 9:51 ` Michael Albinus
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