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Michael McCaffrey <herozero@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
| i'm running emacs on my local machine, but i want to edit a file on
| another machine. considering i can rsh to that machine with emacs, i'm
| guessing i can do this, but just can't figure out how. can anybody point
| me in the right direction?
| 
| thanks,
| mike

Hmmm, in the older (e.g. pre-20) versions, there were the "ftp-find-file",
"ftp-write-file", "ftp-revert-buffer", etc. M-X commands with which remote
file editing was possible.  Looking at the lisp directory for Emacs 20, I
don't see anything that would appear to have replaced that capability.

Maybe the capability was deimplemented for security reasons?

Thad

thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan) writes:

> Michael McCaffrey <herozero@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> | i'm running emacs on my local machine, but i want to edit a file on
> | another machine. considering i can rsh to that machine with emacs, i'm
> | guessing i can do this, but just can't figure out how. can anybody point
> | me in the right direction?
> 
> Hmmm, in the older (e.g. pre-20) versions, there were the "ftp-find-file",
> "ftp-write-file", "ftp-revert-buffer", etc. M-X commands with which remote
> file editing was possible.  Looking at the lisp directory for Emacs 20, I
> don't see anything that would appear to have replaced that capability.

You can access files via FTP with ange-ftp.  In XEmacs this has been
replaced with efs.  I do this with XEmacs all the time just by
accessing the file with a name like:

  /user@shellx.ba.best.com:~user/public_html/foo.txt

It should prompt you for a password.  I presume this still works in
GNU Emacs, but I dont use that version.

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