Re: Using TRAMP on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, tramp-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:36:03 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> If the username is ommitted, it makes the assumption that the
> >> username is the same as the windows domain user.
> >
> > Which is usually a bad assumption.
> 
> It depends.
> 
> However, it is configurable in `tramp-default-user-alist'. I'm not using
> MS Windows myself; if you tell me we should drop this default for plink
> and pscp, it could be done easily.

I don't see a reason to drop it, as that is what plink does outside
Emacs, too.