Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:03:58 EST
John Abreau said:

>Over a slow connection (like a 56K dialup) that would be painfully 
>unresponsive. I hadn't heard about this capability before, but it sounds 
>sweet. Running the editor locally and only tunneling the file i/o 
>sounds like a major win.
>
>How does one actually invoke this?

You need the 'tramp' stuff installed.  In Debian, just 
'apt-get install tramp' then fire up emacs.

The key however, is that you need to use ssh-agent and fire up emacs 
from a shell where that has the ssh-agent environment vars available.

Then, when you want to open a file on the remote server you open it 
somewhat normally:

	C-x C-f /[user at remotehost]/path/to/remote/file

Then your file will be loaded into the current buffer.  Then any 
normal file operations on it will work as normal.
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Seeya,
Paul
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