From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (K. ) - 2002-01-22 07:29:31
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Colin Marquardt <c.m...@al...> writes: > I just connected through it to one of our servers (Solaris 5.8) with > the rm method, and it works perfectly with the latest version. > > I like that it can produce lots of output of what is going on, but it > would be even cooler if this output would be prefixed with "tramp: " > so that you can easily spot it in *Messages*. (Actually, maybe a year > ago we had a discussion on one of the emacs newsgroups where almost > everybody agreed that it would be fine to have the mode name prefixed > for all messages -- so tramp could take the lead here. -- Ah, I now > see that e.g. nnimap also does this...) I agree, prefixing all messages would be a good idea. Luckily, there's only one function to change :-) > Some more comments: I think there should be a short file INSTALL to > go with the README. This makes no sense if Tramp is part of Emacs :-) It is part of XEmacs already... > Also, the tramp file name syntax should be mentioned much earlier in > the docs, maybe in a Quickstart section, and also in the > README. Hm. I just entered the info file and looked at it. Sure, it all starts with not-so-interesting stuff, but to me it was pretty obvious that the section "Usage" was the one I was looking for. What do you do to find the information? > ,---- > | @chapter Obtaining @tramp{}. > | > | @tramp{} is freely available on the Internet and the latest release may be > | downloaded from > | @uref{ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/tramp.tar.gz}. This > | release includes the full documentation and code for @tramp{}, suitable > | for installation. > `---- > > "latest release may be downloaded": that "release" smells like an > older, proven, slightly dust-covered version, not of the latest > development version (currently, that file is from today, or is > this not normally so?) Hm, err. I had just fixed two bugs and it seemed to me that the result should be working. But I agree that it is not "proven". Hm. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall) |