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Subject: Remote Host Editing
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 01:56:00 EDT
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       ----- I'm just beginning to know my way around Gnu Emacs: -----

The other  day, for the  first time, I  invoked 'view-emacs-news .   This is a
marvelous help feature, and  through it I learned  several new features that I
very much like.  Then I came across the commands:

        'ftp-visit-file     and     'ftp-write-file

These again, are really excellent new  features.  But I  wonder why  they were
set  up  the way they  were.  In our  version  (18.44.1),  the visited file is
evidently not meant to be edited like most visited files.  My questions are:

  1) Why doesn't the visited file become the selected buffer & window ?
  2) Why is the buffer made read only ?
  3) Will there be any "save foo?" query about the file on exit, if changed ?

These seem the natural approach  to me, but what  do  others think ?  Is there
some problem I am not aware of that would make these difficult or unwise ?