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Re: Tramp in Emacs 21?
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Tom Roche |
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Re: Tramp in Emacs 21? |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:17:46 -0500 (EST) |
Kai Großjohann Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:34:51 +0100
>>> It seems that now would be a good time to think about including
>>> Tramp in Emacs -- a version has just been released, so now is the
>>> time to include additional features in Emacs.
Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu> Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:39:23 -0500
>> I believe the emacs communities will benefit by having better
>> support for remote resources. I would like to see emacs become "the
>> multiplatform editor" not only because it runs on so many platforms
>> (which it does now--FWIW IIRC the mac-emacs folks had 21 binaries
>> up before the win32 folks), but by becoming able to function
>> (though presumably not _perform_) equally well with both local and
>> remote filesystems. It annoys me, e.g., that emacs assumes that I
>> can't symlink files when I'm running on win32, since I can either
>> via tramp or AFS.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:58:22 +0200
> Would you care to step forward and volunteer to work on this?
Sure. However please note that my emacs chops are presently pretty
weak, but I'm willing to do what I can. Note however that
* you will get much more added value from the assistance of Herr
Großjohann :-)
* I don't believe that making emacs more capable of using remote
filesystems should be viewed as a "Windows specific feature."
Granted, win32 is currently the most prominent among emacs platforms
with less-capable native filesystems, but I suspect that there are,
and will be (e.g. various handhelds), others.
IMHO the problem should be viewed not as platform-specific (i.e.
"win32 is broken") but as drive-, mount-, or filesystem-specific
(i.e. "the filesystem at //path/to/server/volume/ can't do
symlinks"). Thanks to tramp, emacs can work on filesystems
quite different from those native to the platform on which it
happens to be running.
FWIW, Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu