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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: remote file editing
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Date: 14 Jan 91 23:03:56 GMT
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In-Reply-To: austel@maui.cs.ucla.edu's message of 14 Jan 91 21:30:01 GMT

In article <1991Jan14.213001.4416@cs.ucla.edu> austel@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Vernon Austel) writes:

      I want to be able to edit files which are not accessible from
   my local file system or via NFS; in other words, I would like to be
   able to edit files with names like "hostname:path", much as I can
   copy files with names like this using rcp.  

ange-ftp is a package that does this.  It is available upon request
from the author or in the osu-cis elisp archive, viz:

tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/ange-ftp.el.Z

here's some excerpts from the code:

;;
;; File:         ange-ftp.el
;; RCS:          $Header: ange-ftp.el,v 3.65 90/12/04 15:04:08 ange Exp $
;; Description:  simple ftp access to files from GNU Emacs
;; Author:       Andy Norman, ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com
;; Created:      Thu Oct 12 14:00:05 1989
;; Modified:     Tue Dec  4 15:03:35 1990 (Ange) ange@anorman
;;
;;; This package attempts to make accessing files / directories using ftp from
;;; within GNU Emacs as simple as possible.  A subset of the normal
;;; file-handling routines are extended to understand ftp.
;;;
;;; To read or write a file using ftp, or to read a directory using ftp, the
;;; only thing that a user needs to do is to specify the filename using a 
;;; slighly extended syntax.
;;;
;;; The default syntax of ftp files is /user@host:path.  This is customizable.
;;; See the variable ange-ftp-path-format for more details.
;;;