Thanks everybody for their answers and suggestions. I have tried X forwarding, but sometimes it is too slow (my network's fault, I believe), so I guess I'll just keep my separate configuration files in sync.
Regards, Luis On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:26:15PM +0000, John Long wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:18:59PM +0000, John Long wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > > > > Maybe this is a dumb question: as we can use IMAP to access remote > > > mailboxes, could we also use it to access other remote files with > > > configuration commands and 'source' them? > > > > No, IMAP is specifically an email protocol and isn't good for the general > > case of files. And even if it was, you would need IMAP servers running on > > all the other computers... > > I didn't explain this very well. The issue (as I understand it from reading > 3 posts in this thread) is you want to be able to access a file wherever it > is and open it with whatever application is appropriate. You can't usually > do that because most of these applications can't find the file. > > What X forwarding does is allow you to run X applications for example a > browser, a file manager, OpenOffice.org on some PC and actually control it > from the PC you're using now. If you're running Mutt over SSH then it is > going to save and read files from the remote machine. When you try to open > an attachment that needs X (like a PDF, .doc, etc) if you have X forwarding > set in SSH the program on the same box Mutt is already running on can open > it, but it will display it on *your* terminal. The problem of accessing > files remotely doesn't exist in this case because Mutt, the file you want to > open, and the application are *all* running on the remote host, only the > *display* part of it is being done on your local system. > > This is much harder to understand than to actually do. You should try and > see if you can SSH to the Mutt host with the -X or -Y options and then start > a program that uses X and see if you get an error about invalid display or > whether your application pops up on your local machine. Then we can go from > there. > > > -- > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong > against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD > and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org > attachments Code Blue or Go Home! -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | moc...@fis.unam.mx /\_/\__/ O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
