Francis Litterio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Gro�johann) writes: > >> I've now added some words to the manual. What do you think? > >> If you use the Cygwin installation of ssh (you have to explicitly >> select it in the installer), then it should work out of the box to just >> select `sshx' as the connection method. You can find information about >> setting up Cygwin in their FAQ at `http://cygwin.com/faq/'. >> >> If you wish to use the `scpx' connection method, then you might have >> the problem that Emacs calls `scp' with a Windows filename such as > > That should probably say "NT Emacs" instead of just "Emacs". Emacs does > come with Cygwin, and though I've never used it, I doubt that it > generates pathanames of the form "c:/path/name".
A few lines down, I mention the Cygwin possibility... >> `c:/foo'. The Cygwin version of `scp' does not know about Windows >> filenames and interprets this as a remote filename on the host `c'. >> >> One possible workaround is to write a wrapper script for `scp' which >> converts the Windows filename to a Cygwinized filename. >> >> I guess that another workaround is to run Emacs under Cygwin, or to >> run a Cygwinized Emacs. > > You might want to distinguish the various cases like this: > > 1. NT Emacs launched from a desktop shortcut. This has the problem that > if fails to inherit SSH_AUTH_SOCK from the user's shell. > > 2. NT Emacs started from Cygwin Bash. This avoids the problem that #1 > has. > > 3. Cygwin Emacs launched from a desktop shortcut. This has the problem > that if fails to inherit SSH_AUTH_SOCK from the user's shell. > > 4. Cygwin Emacs started from Cygwin bash. This avoids the problem that #1 > has and also avoids the problem with the "c:" prefix in scp filename > arguments. I've now added some paragraphs about ssh-agent. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis) _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
