<List folk: this is the impromptu skeleton of the NT FAQ item I intend to write. If you see anything wrong, or believe something's missing, or have better wording, please lemme know.> Rodney Sparapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 07 Mar 2001 15:58:39 -0600 > What did you have to do to get Tramp working on emacs for Windows? > I've been trying all day and I must be missing something. emacs 20.7 > with Windows 2000 and Cygwin 1.1.8 I didn't use Cygwin :-) Seriously--Cygwin is probably the better way to go, but I've had problems in the past setting it up. You might wanna try a non-Cygwin setup first. Or you might wanna ignore this, and find someone who's up on Cygwin. FWIW, I have tramp.el,v 2.0.2.1 working on GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) on w2k sp1. I'm planning to do a HOWTO for this, but briefly (i.e. very sketchily, ask if you have questions): a six-step plan. 0 Install 'putty' and 'plink' from the PuTTY package http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html I'd recommend installing all the PuTTY stuff, but YMMV. 1 Run 'putty' to your target host, as a milestone. (I.e. if you can't get that working, there's a problem that you need to fix before proceeding.) 2 Eval for testing, or install in .emacs, the following elisp: (setq remote-shell-program "plink") ; is "rsh" by default (paths.el) ;;; M-x plink-ssh makes an SSH connection in a *shell*-type buffer. ;;; (M-x plink does not). ; Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02 Mar 2001 10:59:40 ; attempt by me to use ssh-1.7, per Hershberger ; I use shell-mode: it has more functionality (setq plink-program "plink") ; (require 'telnet) (defun plink-ssh (host) "Open a network login connection. See plink." (interactive "sOpen ssh connection to host: ") (plink host "-ssh")) ;; Telnet to host. (defun plink (host &optional ssh-string) "Open a network login connection to host named HOST (a string). Communication with HOST is recorded in a buffer `*plink-HOST*'. Normally input is edited in Emacs and sent a line at a time." (interactive "sOpen ssh connection to host: ") (require 'shell) (let ((name (concat "plink-" host)) (password (comint-read-noecho "password: " t))) (pop-to-buffer (make-comint name plink-program nil ssh-string host "-pw" password)) ; causes echoing of the Password: prompt in minibuffer? maybe ; but also prevents echoing of ^M ? ; (set-process-filter (get-process name) 'telnet-initial-filter) ; (telnet-mode) (shell-mode) (accept-process-output (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))) ; Causes echoing of the Password: prompt in minibuffer? no ; Nor does it affect echoing of ^M. But commenting it out seems to ; make the resize take longer to time out. (send-string (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) "stty echo\n") ; (setq telnet-count -16) )) 3 Run plink-ssh to your target host. If you get that working, all should be well. Find some file you own, and note its complete /path/to/filename. 4 Copy the following code for ange-ftp and tramp (remember that tramp requires ange-ftp!) to somewhere (e.g. your .emacs). Remove or modify whatever you see fit, but you must absolutely change: - shell-prompt-pattern to something appropriate for your target(s). You might wanna try commenting it out (i.e. using the default), or doing a regexp that works with the prompts you have observed above. - The string "password" to your password on the target. (This reminds me, I need to post about this.) Unfortunately 'plink' has interaction problems, so for now its gotta be in the file. After modification, eval for testing, or install in .emacs: ;;; ange-ftp and tramp-------------------------------------------------- (require 'ange-ftp) (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name (concat (expand-file-name (getenv "WINDIR")) "/system32/ftp.exe") ) ; customize the temporary directory that ange-ftp uses to cache files (setq ange-ftp-tmp-name-template (concat (expand-file-name (getenv "TEMP")) "/ange-ftp") ) (setq ange-ftp-gateway-tmp-name-template (concat (expand-file-name (getenv "TEMP")) "/ange-ftp") ) ;;; tramp, formerly rcp: see ;;; http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html ; ; Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/8/00 8:37:15 PM >>> ; ; > in your .emacs, make sure that you have `(require 'rcp)' /after/ ; ; > `(require 'ange-ftp)'. Make sure that you *do* have the require for ; ; > ange-ftp as well... ; (require 'rcp) (require 'tramp) ;;; shell-prompt-pattern stuff ; I want .mycshrc to have ; set prompt="%/> " ; so use (setq shell-prompt-pattern "^.*/ncsu/tlroche> ") ; ; following from ; ; Joe Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/2/00 10:47:05 AM >>> ; for debugging (setq tramp-verbose 10) (setq tramp-debug-buffer t) ; (setq rcp-auto-save-directory "c:/temp") (setq tramp-auto-save-directory "d:/temp") ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01 Mar 2001 23:55:50 +0100 ; > [tramp-methods] _either_ have rcp-program and rcp-args, _or_ they ; > have encoding and decoding commands/functions, but never both. ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04 Mar 2001 12:34:20 +0100 ; > Tramp is quite anal about having all kinds of method parameters. ; > Don't let any of them default to anything. Specify them all. So ; > just add (tramp-rcp-args nil) into the method spec, and you should ; > be all set. Look at the other methods so you're sure you're not ; > missing anything that should be set to nil. (setq tramp-methods (append (list '("t" ; basically ssh with mimencode ; (tramp-connection-function tramp-open-connection-rsh) (tramp-connection-function HACKED-tramp-open-connection-rsh) (tramp-rsh-program "plink") ; commenting this out annoys tramp-1.449. It should instead be nil: ; (tramp-rcp-program "pscp") (tramp-rcp-program nil) (tramp-rcp-args nil) (tramp-remote-sh "/bin/sh") (tramp-rsh-args ; note that each word must be separate! ( ; This may cause buffering problems. Note that in *shell* ; the verbose reports follow logout ... ; "-v" ; don't really wanna do this ; note that args must be separate words! "-pw" "password" "-ssh" )) ; (tramp-rcp-keep-date-arg "-p") (tramp-rcp-keep-date-arg nil) (tramp-su-program nil) (tramp-su-args nil) (tramp-encoding-command "mimencode -b") (tramp-decoding-command "mimencode -u -b") (tramp-encoding-function base64-encode-region) (tramp-decoding-function base64-decode-region) (tramp-telnet-program nil)) ) tramp-methods) ) ; end (setq tramp-methods (setq tramp-default-method "t") ; calling syntax is, e.g. ; /r@t:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:.emacs 5 Do M-x find-file /r@t:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:<known file from above> Magic should ensue. If not, post. After things work, you might wanna * turn off tramp-verbose and tramp-debug-buffer. * try again with Cygwin :-) Globally, and longterm, it's the better solution. HTH, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
