> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: sftp
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:37:17 +0900
>
> reader> Are you saying that Emacs can use scp to edit remote files as
> reader> if they were on disk as it does with ange-ftp?
>
> here is a fragment of a frequent post to one of the emacs newsgroups --
> it only explicitly mentions rcp, but i have heard many people say that
> it works w/ ssh/scp.
>
> <blatant plug>
> Try rcp.el which is similar to ange-ftp but uses rsh/rcp or similar
> programs to transfer files.
> ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/rcp.el
> </blatant plug>
rcp.el support rcp, scp, and rsync (plus some more obscure others). All of
them utilize a rsh-like program (e.g., ssh) to provide directory listings
so that filename completion, et al., works.
I am most interested in rsync (over ssh), since this might offer the
potential of much greater efficiency when editing a remote file with
frequent saves. Conceivably this could beat saving via NFS on a 10Mb LAN.
My experience so far is that it is a servicable work-alike to ange-ftp.
There's a substantial overhead because Emacs accesses the file system many
times (checking dates, permissions, links, etc.) when saving files, and I
think that these currently translate into separate ssh tranactions.
Also file renaming doesn't work, so that the "safe" saves of mail files
(which involve writing to a temp file followed by a rename) don't work.
--
Charles Karney
Plasma Physics Laboratory E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Princeton University Phone: +1 609 243 2607
Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 FAX: +1 609 243 3438
