Nico,
Thanks very much for the response! However, I seem to have confused the
issue -- AFAIK, reading and writing remote files using FTP is *not* what
I want to do.
The closest and most accurate analogy that I can come up with is this:
while browsing websites with Xemacs w3 mode, I come across what is known
in HTML as a TEXTAREA. A TEXTAREA appears in most (graphical)
browsers as an empty box into which you can enter text. You've seen
them -- pages where you can enter feedback for a site on the page rather
than sending email. I've been able to enter text into them using Xemacs
w3 mode, but I'm stuck at that point -- I don't know how to tell Xemacs
to "save" what I've entered (back to the web site). I can press C-X C-S
(or whatever) to save what I've entered locally, but that doesn't "save"
it back to the web site.
As I said, this is an analogy, and thus not 100% accurate. If you want
to see more exactly what I'm trying to do, see
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/UsingEmacsToEditTwiki. When I
come across another web page with a TEXTAREA box, I'll try again.
(Xemacs didn't do well at all on the dlink page I found the other day,
and someone thought it might have something to do with Java.)
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
Nico Krzebek wrote:
>
> (X)Emacs is able to read & write remote files using FTP transparently. The
> only difference is how you enter the your file name. To access a file located
> on another machine (with running FTP server!)
> /user@host:file
> eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/index.html
> You can even use tab completion! (X)Emacs will ask for your password after
> you pressed enter or used tab completion for the first time. It will be
> stored for the rest of your (X)Emacs session.
>
> I'm not quite sure if you need to load any extra packages for that. The
> XEmacs and GNU-Emacs we have installed here do it all automagically but I've
> heard of a Ange-FTP package for GNU-Emacs. You might need that. You load
> additional packages with M-x load-library <Enter> and then type ange-ftp
> <Enter>.
>
> Two issues I have not been able to resolve yet are: how to chmod remote files
> and how to use sftp instead of ftp...
>
> Nico
>
> On Monday 28 May 2001 22:05, you wrote:
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > When twiki.org is back up (on SourceForge), I'll tell you how I've done
> > it using vim -- maybe that will give you a clue as to how I might do it
> > in EMACs.
> >
> > (And, if my library has the book, I'll check that out.)
> >
> > Randy Kramer
> >
> > Nathan Owens wrote:
> > > I don't know about emacs itself in terms of editing web pages, but
> > > when I edit web pages, I usually have to FTP them to the web server.
> > >
> > > In emacs, the save command is C-x C-s, as you said, but I've only
> > > saved files locally. You may want to check out the O'Reilly book
> > > _Learning GNU Emacs_. It has a lot of great tips that I've picked up
> > > through reading it.
> > >
> > > Nathan Owens
> > >
> > > >Anybody out there using EMACs to browse the web and edit "textareas"?
> > > >
> > > >I'm a very newbie to EMACs, but wanted to try that -- don't know what
> > > >to do to save my edits. After I edit, I can choose save (I forget --
> > > >was it <ctrl>x, <ctrl>s?) but that seems to save only as a local
> > > >file.
> > > >
> > > >How do I send the changes back to the web site?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nathan Owens
> > > Georgia Tech, Atlanta
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
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