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From: crew@CS.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: remote file visiting?
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Date: 14 Oct 89 05:25:40 GMT
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here's something on my wish list:

Let's say I'm logged in at hosta and running emacs and I want to edit
a file sitting on my account on hostb.  

Now, I know about ftp-find-file, ftp-write-file, etc..., 
What I was wondering is if someone has done something similar for
the rsh-derived routines (let's also assume that all of
the right .rhosts files are in place).

I would prefer something that, to the extent that this is possible,
sets up the buffers so that I can pretend I'm editing a local file
(this includes doing a reasonable subset of the various checks that
find-file does, setting up the auto-saving in a intelligent manner,
and so on...).

The next (trivial) step is a general find-file(-noselect) that can
recognize that for, e.g., "hostb:src/foo/whatever", it should invoke
the remote routine.

Seems to me I can't be the first person who's thought of doing this.

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