Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: remote file editing Message-ID: <4666@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 16 Jan 91 08:26:09 GMT References: <1991Jan14.213001.4416@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Distribution: comp.emacs Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 17 In-reply-to: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) >>>>> In message , emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (EV) writes: EV> In article <1991Jan14.213001.4416@cs.ucla.edu> austel@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Vernon Austel) writes: VA> I want to be able to edit files which are not accessible from VA> my local file system or via NFS; in other words, I would like to be VA> able to edit files with names like "hostname:path", much as I can VA> copy files with names like this using rcp. EV> ange-ftp is a package that does this. It is available upon request EV> from the author or in the osu-cis elisp archive, viz: There is also a package remote.el that uses rcp (no need to type your password if your .rhosts file is set up correctly). I use both packages at the same time, they work together perfectly. -- Piet van Oostrum