Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: remote file visiting? Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 89 16:42:24 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: crew@CS.Stanford.EDU's message of 14 Oct 89 05:25:40 GMT >>>>> On 14 Oct 89 05:25:40 GMT, crew@CS.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) said: Roger> here's something on my wish list: Roger> Let's say I'm logged in at hosta and running emacs and I want to edit Roger> a file sitting on my account on hostb. Roger> I would prefer something that, to the extent that this is possible, Roger> sets up the buffers so that I can pretend I'm editing a local file Roger> (this includes doing a reasonable subset of the various checks that Roger> find-file does, setting up the auto-saving in a intelligent manner, Roger> and so on...). Roger> The next (trivial) step is a general find-file(-noselect) that can Roger> recognize that for, e.g., "hostb:src/foo/whatever", it should invoke Roger> the remote routine. Roger> Seems to me I can't be the first person who's thought of doing this. The TI/Explorer and Symbolics Lisp Machines have this feature in Zmacs. IT would be a WONDERFUL thing to have it in emacs on unix. In fact, it should probably try to use the rsh once if it can login using the .rhosts, then use ftp and the .ftprc and then ask for a password for the machine if all else fails. Then, failing that, make it use anonymous ftp -- why not? Then you could use Dired to peruse your favorite ftp archives and just `c' to copy them to your local directory. -- Rodney