Re: Disabling Tramp

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> BTW, would it be possible to mention _why_ tramp is better than
>> ange-ftp...?
>
> I think that's difficult because Tramp isn't better.  It does a
> different job.

The way I see it, it does the same job (access remote files), but has
more ways (as you mention) to do it than ange-ftp.

> One can remove the Tramp entries from file-name-handler-alist and
> re-add the Ange-FTP entries there.  But it's also possible to just
> type "/ftp:address@hidden:/some/file" as the filename, or to set
> tramp-default-method, as Michael mentioned.

Setting tramp-default-method is cleary the easiest way, so it might
be good to mention just that in NEWS.

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