Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs
Michael,
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 you wrote:
>>>>> "SR" == Sandy Rutherford <of Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:27:17
PST> writes:
SR> If memory serves
SR> me right, at the time, the Internet Engineering Draft that defined the
SR> URL syntax allowed for no way to specify the username that you wished
SR> to use to access the remote file.
> I dunno about the IED, but Netscape has been supporting
> the ftp://user＠machine/path syntax
> for many years now. There is no reason to not revisit the old decision
> about not supporting URLs in EFS or ange-ftp.
OK, it's been some years since I have had the time to stay up to date
with these things. How does it handle relative remote paths? Is
there a special syntax for filenames in my remote home directory?
Without this, editing remote files would still be a pain.
...Sandy
Well, it still requires the absolute path name (this is why I still use EFS!)
However, nothing precludes you from extending the syntax by allowing ~ and
by assuming that if the file name doesn't start with / then it is a
relative file name.
I hope that now that Navigator is in the hands of mozilla.org, they will
also start using relative path names.
m.