From: David Starks-B. <da...@st...> - 2002-05-28 10:08:35
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On Tuesday 28 May 02, Kai Gro,b_(Bjohann writes: > David Starks-Browning <da...@st...> writes: > > > I've updated <http://starks-browning.com/david/tramp/> to reflect the > > simpler instructions. Thanks again for helping me with it. And > > thanks for contacting Klaus Berndl about cygwin-mount.el. > > Hm. It seems that one doesn't really have to do much. The path > setting should be done because people can already use Emacs. The > ssh-add stuff isn't really necessary. I thought there was a problem with tramp + GNU Emacs + Cygwin ssh on Windows if you had to type anything in order to connect, like a passphrase or password. So you had to run ssh-agent + ssh-add first. At least, it may have been a problem in the past. I'll check that tonight. (I can only work on this stuff at home.) As for paths, it is more common *not* to have Cygwin directories in your default Windows PATH. Certainly the standard Cygwin installer does not touch your default Windows PATH. Also I don't think it's common to invoke runemacs from a Cygwin bash shell. > So what would remain is a hint that under Windows, scp is tricky to > set up and people might prefer to use an inline method. I would be explicit and advise smx. I believe it's the only pre-written method that is going to work "out of the box" with Cygwin ssh. I'm only interested in ssh-based methods. When security is not an issue, ange-ftp works well enough for me. :-) Kind regards, David |