Re: removing efs to get tramp working?

Adrian Aichner <[email protected]> writes:

> Shouldn't we do something about this?
>
> Kai asked us a while back.

In fact, AFAICS Kai has prepared it already. Before requiring Tramp,
one has to set `tramp-unified-filenames'. All XEmacs download sites
defined in `package-get-download-sites' are defaulted to the FTP
method.

I've played a little bit with, and it worked nicely. But I'm an
occasional XEmacs user only, my major flavor is the other one ...

> Alas I was not able to devote much time to this.
>
> There seem to be some issues with tramp hooks triggering on non-tramp
> files as well.

That I don't understand. There are some comments in tramp-efs.el,
pointing to EFS hooks not handled yet. Whether this makes trouble, I
don't know.

> Any help would be appreciated much.

Kai and me would really like to see this solved. If anything is
needed to be adapted in Tramp - we're ready to do.

> Adrian

Best regards, Michael.