Re: How to get GNU Emacs to prefer tramp over ange-ftp?

[Michael Albinus]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> If I (load "tramp") interactively it works.  Not really being a GNU Emacs
> user anymore, I have two questions:
>
>     1. Where can I stick the (load "tramp") call to make it the default?

(info "(emacs)Init File")

You can use default.el or site-start.el, located in your default load-path.

>     2. If I do that will people who actually use ange-ftp get screwed up or
>        is tramp going to be backward-compatible with existing usage?  If
>        not, can I make ftp be the default method or something similar?

(setq tramp-default-method "ftp")

> Thx,

Best regards, Michael.