Re: remote file editing over ssh with emacs 22.3.1 on Windows/Mac

[Chris Withers]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Anselm gave you several hints for configuration of ssh. Unfortunately,
> you do not run ssh but putty.
>
> Tramp supports a method called "plinkx" (since Tramp 2.1.10, I
> believe). This is used to take putty session names, instead of host
> names.

yep, that was the missing, thank you!

> So for every remote host you want to access, you might create a putty
> session, which includes the host and user names. Let's call such a putty
> session "somehost", with host name "somehost.somedomain" and user name
> "cwithers". Likely, you have done this already.
>
> Than you can add two rules:
>
>   (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>     '(nil "\\`root\\'" "/plinkx:%h:"))
>
>   (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>     '("\\`localhost\\'" "\\`root\\'" nil))

I think this second one is redundant, right?
(as I'm on Windows, sudo'ing to localhost is a bit of a no-go ;-) )

cheers,

Chris

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