From: Tom R. <Tom...@nc...> - 2001-11-12 18:39:28
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Kai Großjohann Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:34:51 +0100 >> It seems that now would be a good time to think about including >> Tramp in Emacs -- a version has just been released, so now is the >> time to include additional features in Emacs. Skip Montanaro <mon...@tt...> Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:50:47 +0100 > I think getting the Emacs and XEmacs folks to distribute Tramp would > be a good thing, for a few reasons: > * more widespread usage - lots of people use ssh these days - > efs/ange-ftp just doesn't cut it <snip> > * many more eyeballs on the code <snip> > * better integration with other editor features <snip> I agree with all, and agree with the Gnus model (gotta set that up one of these days). But also, I believe the emacs communities will benefit by having better support for remote resources. I would like to see emacs become "the multiplatform editor" not only because it runs on so many platforms (which it does now--FWIW IIRC the mac-emacs folks had 21 binaries up before the win32 folks), but by becoming able to function (though presumably not _perform_) equally well with both local and remote filesystems. It annoys me, e.g., that emacs assumes that I can't symlink files when I'm running on win32, since I can either via tramp or AFS. I also believe that emacs should treat FTP (or SFTP) as only one remote-file-access method among many, rather than having the relatively privileged status it now enjoys. YMMV, Tom...@nc... |