Wanting to use emacs in ssh mode I've downloaded the latest
rcp.src. package, byte compiled loaded and now customizeing via
M-x customize-group <RET>rcp <RET>
It's about as clear as mud to me, if I need the whole alist of stuff
that is there or what.
I want to use ssh scp rsync. I don't see any "ssh" on the alist and
scp appears as scp scp1 scp2. I'm running ssh-1.2.26 so apparently
scp2 is not for me, however do I need both scp scp1
I've chosen scp & rsync <== is this correct?
Reading the comments:
;; The out-of-band methods require that you can log in to the remote
;; system without having to enter a password. This is because the
;; standard program "rcp" does not query for a password but just fails
;; if entering a password is necessary.
This sounds as if I have wasted my time with rcp.el since every
machine I want to connect to asks for a password, and apparently scp
is an out-of-band method.
So assuming I've misread something or else the package would be fairly
useless to most people.
Taking these steps to get started:
Reading comments:
;;
;; Usage is also simple: it's just like ange-ftp, but uses a different
;; syntax for the remote file names. The syntax used is as follows:
;;
;; /r@METHOD:USER@HOST:FILENAME
This claims to be "just" like ange-ftp but looks considerably
different to me.
I never have used ange-ftp like that but like below:
/reader@HOST:/path/file or
/ftp@HOST:/path/file
So what role does the lowercase "r" play ... What goes in METHOD?
Trying the above syntax like:
/s@scp:reader@<HOST>:/home/reader/.emacs
Give me no usefull behaviour at all. Instead I get a silly prompt
that askes for a password for "s@scp"
Message buffer shows ange-ftp being loaded instead of rcp:
Loading ange-ftp...
Loading ange-ftp...done
Password for s@scp:
Since this is billed as being "simple" apparently I am a dunce.
Further first use notes:
The info file looks as if it is designed to become part of info-dir by
being catenated into it when the path to rcp texi is given to emacs.
I've given the path to emacs and C-h v Info-directory-list <RET>
shows:
Info-directory-list's value is
("/usr/info" "/usr/local/w3-4.0pre.44/texi" "/usr/lib/info"
"/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/pgnus/texi"
"/usr/local/rcp-src-el/texi" "/usr/local/info" "/us
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
r/local/elisp-manual-19-2.4.2" "/usr/local/emacs-lisp-intro-.05")
That is the correct path, but no info page is available at C-h i m rcp <RET>.
Is one expected to hand edit "dir" to get this to display? Or is it
supposed to just happen?
Reading now with info reader and `info -f rcp.info'
