Re: Problems editing remote files - Solved [tramp/Cygwin]

[Angelo Graziosi]

It seems I have solved installing a missing package.

Sorry for the noise.

Ciao,
Angelo.


Il 02/10/2010 23.40, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
> For the sake of completeness I want to flag the following issue I meat
> on Cygwin.
>
> Trying to edit e remote file:
>
> emacs -Q &
> C-x C-f /ftp:address@hidden:foo.txt
> Password for address@hidden:...
>
> it works just fine on GNU/Linux Kubuntu 10.04, but HANGS/FREEZES on
> Cygwin :(, though it uses 0% CPU (the cursor becomes a clock). I can
> recover Emacs with C-g [*].
>
> While it is hanging, I noticed that, on Cygwin, it uses (try?) the
> Windows FTP program NOT the one which comes with Cygwin! Indeed 'ps'
> shows the '.../system32/ftp' process.
>
> Is this to be expected? Surely '.../system32/ftp' does not understand
> POSIX paths...
>
> Emacs is 24.050 r101732.
>
> Ciao,
> Angelo.
>
> ---
> [*] Notice that 'ftp.remotehost' does not accept ssh connection, so
> 'ftp' method is the last resource, I think.