Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I'm currently implementing the fish protocol for Tramp 2.1, driven by
>     performance considerations. But (at least for the time being) it isn't
>     foreseen to provide such a server by Tramp; it should be available on
>     the remote side already.
>
> Tramp is supposed to do the client side of the job;
> I wouldn't expect it to do the server side.

Fish v0.0.3 introduces a protocol extension, which allows to transfer
the server code on request. I plan to ignore this command; Tramp could
fall back to POSIX shell commands via ssh method if there is no server
available. This is also conform with the fish protocol, at least since
v0.0.2.

Best regards, Michael.