From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to list, add, edit, save file on a remote server
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:53:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-2D94AE.19533131082012@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7889.1346454792.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.7889.1346454792.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> a very general question, with the hope to get some general advice what
> route to take:
>
> Suppose you are registered on a foreign server with the right to add and
> edit files, and there is no Emacs running on that server. There exists
> an Emacs mode for the type of files on the server, and you want to
> access the server, list all files, select a file for editing, save
> edits, or even add a new file - all from within Emacs, without ever
> touching the webinterface.
>
> How would you do that?
> Via FTP? With Tramp? Would it be possible to run dired on the foreign
> server?
>
> I would need some hints where to start my own investigations.
> TIA
Tramp is one way. If you're using some flavor of Unix, another option is
FUSE with SSHFS or FTPFS -- this works independently of Emacs and makes
the remote filesystem appear to be in your local hierarchy.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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2012-08-31 23:53 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2012-09-01 12:19 ` How to list, add, edit, save file on a remote server Thorsten Jolitz
2012-08-31 23:16 Thorsten Jolitz
2012-09-01 7:25 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-09-01 12:18 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-09-04 19:37 ` Jeffery Rancier
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