Re: port specification for a host

[<ki...@cs...>]

> ki...@cs... (Michael Kifer) writes:
> 
> > Thanks! This is good enough (although it would be nice to be able to tell
> > tramp to invoke ssh with the -p option without any config files).
> 
> Yes, it would be nice to be able to do that.  However, I'm hesitating
> to make a special case for the "-p" arg of ssh.  Tramp supports many
> other methods for connecting.
> 
> Hm.  OTOH, people are asking for "-p" and I don't see requests for
> another argument.  Hm.

This is because connecting to a different port appears to be a rather
common case.


> I guess the most difficult problem is how to fit it into a Tramp
> filename?

Would
/[machine:port]
do?
This is similar to the URL syntax.


	--michael