Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs
Why propose so much effort just to use an alternative to ftp?
ftp seems to work; what benefit would we have from the option
to use another alternative?
ftp isn't the only file transfer protocol out there. scp (part of ssh,
the de-facto standard for a secure alternative to rlogin/rsh/rcp) is
particularly nice because it offers encryption and simple RSA based
authentication.
I really think it'd be good if emacs standardized on using URLs to
specify things to load that are outside the filesystem. URLs are a
nice, standard syntax for specifying a method and a location: it
solves exactly the problem we are discussing here.
It's a problem that // means something special in emacs: could you
maybe special case "://" to mean something different to handle URLs?
(// isn't common to all URLs, btw, although it's typical for many of
the ones that name things that look like files).
How did emacs work under Apollo, where // in a filename meant
something special to the OS?
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