From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:36:08 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071589564 29932 80.91.224.253 (16 Dec 2003 15:46:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 16:45:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWHOU-00067s-01 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:45:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWIKL-0001GT-6T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:45:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mu.cis.ohio-state.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RBnUH9DGn+ZmQpwy9dVRFaYjXX0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119387 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15326 Micha Feigin writes: > I visited it manually from the command line and I also tried both > syntax types, the one in the thread didn't work as menssioned (I can > send the error message again if you want). > There is no other emacs version currently installed on my machine. > I compiled it myself from the sources though. Then look at the sources you compiled from. There should be a tramp.texi that contains the syntax. > Maybe you are using a packaged version that provides a newer version > as part of the package and not part of emacs? Me? I am using cvs emacs, which contains tramp. I don't use tramp as an external package anymore, once it was included in emacs cvs. -- Benjamin