From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to list, add, edit, save file on a remote server Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:53:31 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346457323 18764 80.91.229.3 (31 Aug 2012 23:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 01 01:55:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T7b3T-0000nE-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:55:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7b3Q-0003nO-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: by 10.180.95.2 with SMTP id dg2mr682297wib.2.1346457212570; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!7no1835123wig.0!news-out.google.com!q11ni13142443wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!195.238.0.231.MISMATCH!news.skynet.be!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="7214"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2/5j+PsINpTMJTkwK8NUj" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PQnuU3zGH4fTbRLSU2d2nVsHiFo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194276 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86620 Archived-At: In article , Thorsten Jolitz 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 ***