New subject: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs

Thursday, 4 February 1999

        Sandy Rutherford <sandy(a)math.ubc.ca&gt; writes:

...
 Fair enough. So all that is required is for rssh.el to put it's
own
 entry in the file-name-handler-alist.  For file names matching its
 syntax, rssh.el will run. 
That's what it does.

...
 Perhaps then rssh.el should have picked a different syntax? 
Right now, rssh.el uses names of the form /s:user＠host:/path/to/file;
I'm open to better suggestions.

...
 However, I agree that some sort of unified syntax for remote access
is
 a good idea.  It should be easy to implement that without any changes
 to EFS.  All that would be required is to turf the efs entry out of
 the file-name-handler-alist and install a new handler that matches the
 new syntax.  That handler could then explicitly call the efs handler
 if it wanted EFS to handle the remote access. 
While no changes to EFS are required (nor to rssh.el, for that
matter), the machinery to select the right package still has to be
implemented. 

kai
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