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Re: typo in tramp manual
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: typo in tramp manual |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:29:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
Hi Alan,
> 5.1 TRAMP file name conventions
> ===============================
>
> To log in to the remote host as a specific user, you use the
> syntax ‘/user@host:path/to.file’. That means that connecting to
> ‘melancholia’ as ‘daniel’ and editing ‘.emacs’ in your home
> directory you would specify ‘/daniel@melancholia:.emacs’.
>
> I believe the example given would edit '.emacs/ in DANIEL's home
> directory.
Why do you believe this? Usually, nobody owns a directory ".emacs/". But
it is common for a file ".emacs" to exist in a home directory.
> I also think "path/to.file" is less commonly used in the docs than
> path/to/file.
Indeed. I've changed it.
> allan
Best regards, Michael.