Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would probably be easier just to use tramp instead. I don't know if > it will do sftp, but I do know that it can tunnel directly through > ssh. I use this all the time. > > I suspect that you have never tried tramp. It's a fine package!
There was some discussion of this before, and the conclusion reached was just the opposite. Tramp works ok in it's domain, and is a valuable tool in situations where nothing else works, but it's essentially very inefficient (if you look at what it's doing you'll gag on your wheaties). Ange-ftp, by relying on ftp's direct support of various file-system operations, can be _much_ more efficient (and more reliable) -- and sftp is basically like ftp with many of the bogosities removed. Certainly ange-ftp is an old and crufty mode, and probably would need a bunch of work to eliminate assumptions about ftp, but apparently tramp would need even more work to handle sftp properly. -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs