On 24 Sep 2000, Henrik Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Kai Großjohann]
>
>> My suggestion would be to allow a nil user name for all
>> connection methods, and the functions which require a user
>> name just say (or user (user-login-name)) when user is needed,
>> just like tramp-dissect-file-name does now.
>
> I've been doing some on this now, I've identified the functions
> that actually _uses_ the USER parameter. Also, I've updated some
> of them so that they say (or user (user-login-name)) or so that
> they do something else, depending on what is best in the
> situation.
[...]
> Shall I submit my changes as a patch to the TRAMP list? I hope
> that my comments could be an aid for the one who is actually
> committing the changes (if so is desited), and they are easy to
> find and easy to get rid of.
Yes. That would be a good thing to do, now. That way it can get review
and testing, then committed. :)
Daniel
--
Why could one never do a natural thing without having to
screen it behind a structure of artifice?
-- Edith Wharton, _House of Mirth_
