From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrate Tramp Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200206171631.g5HGVBM13861@aztec.santafe.edu> <200206190223.g5J2NlQ15963@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xd6unqw5g.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206210940.g5L9ei720274@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024673083 26616 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2002 15:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17LQHD-0006v5-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:24:43 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17LQjQ-0007wQ-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:53:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LQH9-0002MM-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LQFX-0002H5-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5058 There are a lot of things which could be auto-detected. ... the lion's share of them were added by me because they fulfilled a real need. I can see that full auto-detection will fill a real need, but nonetheless, partial detection might help in a large portion of situations. It looks to me that you could ignore the external methods for the moment and focus on only four major connection methods and two inline transfer methods: ftp telnet ssh protocol 1 ssh protocol 2 mimencode uuencode and uudecode with the priority being sm smx su and if those fail, then ask, with a default priority of ftp and then telnet, tm and tu. I agree that the info should be cached in a humanly readable and humanly editable configure file. And I agree that it is even more important to enable tramp to connect to sites that provide ssh and uuencode, such as the sites I go to .... :) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com