From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gebser@ameritech.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How useful to run GDB and CVS from *WITHIN* Emacs? How helps? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:03:58 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84k7g39gh3.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: gebser@ameritech.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045231697 16238 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 14:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jgTb-00042p-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:06:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jgSq-0007N0-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jgRv-0007Ar-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jgRd-00074I-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost1-bcvloh.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([66.73.20.42] helo=mailhost.bcv1.ameritech.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jgRc-00073T-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost.bcv1.ameritech.net by mailhost.bcv1.ameritech.net convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from heidegger.mousecar.net ([65.43.210.108]) by mailhost.bcv1.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP <20030214140357.RNRJ28756.mailhost.bcv1.ameritech.net@heidegger.mousecar.net>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:03:57 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= In-Reply-To: <84k7g39gh3.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6689 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6689 Kai Gro=DFjohann at 13:47 (UTC+0100) on Fri, 14 Feb 2003 said: =3D gebser@ameritech.net writes: =3D = =3D > Sounds extremely cool. I should have learned this mode a long time= ago, = =3D > but never had a real need for it... would like to give it a go now = =3D > though. = =3D > =3D > So how would I: =3D > =3D > - Get from some cvs site the latest version of tramp...? the full =3D > package rather than just the diffs? =3D > =3D > - Later on, get the diffs and merge them into the version I have? =3D > =3D > I would imagine that ange-ftp would work (as the background "vehicl= e") = =3D > to retrieve the files, yes? IOW, I wouldn't need tramp in order to= = =3D > retrieve a later version of tramp... or? =3D = =3D What does Tramp have to do with PCL-CVS or GUD mode? As an example of using emacs' cvs functionality to get a fresh version = and then the diffs. I thought that was apparent from the context of my = email. =3D = =3D Tramp is available via FTP and CVS. Instructions can be found at =3D http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp/. If you choose to use CVS, =3D then "cd" to your working directory and type "cvs update -dP". =3D That's enough to fetch the diffs to the most recent version and apply= =3D them. =3D =