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Mention Tramp.
author | Kai Großjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net> |
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date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:55:26 +0000 |
parents | 5cce53a1bf6f |
children | 1b38863a543b |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Tue Jun 18 05:33:25 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Tue Jun 18 09:55:26 2002 +0000 @@ -811,6 +811,21 @@ Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar that makes it easy accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference). +*** Tramp is now part of the distribution. + +This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote +files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host, +Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used +for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for +the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called +`inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell +connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods +(which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or +`rsync' to do the copying). + +Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also +`su' and `sudo'. + --- ** Indentation of simple and extended loop forms has been added to the cl-indent package. The new user options