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[h-e-w] Re: Navigation with file-find
From: |
Harry Putnam |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Re: Navigation with file-find |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:16:20 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
"Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> On my system, I can do find-file //xxx.maths.qmul.ac.uk/home/ and then use
> dired to navigate from there within NT Emacs, where xxx represents our
> departmental NFS server and I run the Microsoft NFS client; something
> similar should work with smb. This does not use tramp or ftp. However,
> completion does not seem to work well.
Ahh that very syntax works fine here ... thanks.
> But what I actually do in practice is open the remote directory I want to
> work in using Windows Explorer and then invoke Emacs on a remote file or
> directory via gnuclientw using the Explorer context menu. I have the roots
> of two remote directory trees assigned to drive letters so that they show up
> in Explorer, which I find much more convenient that using Network
> Neighbourhood. I used Network Neighbourhood only when I was setting up my
> NFS client.
That method still sounds more labor intensive than the first above
though. Examples like:
C-x C-f //chub/chub-c/reader/.emacs
Opens it up right off...