Re: removing efs to get tramp working?

Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]> writes:

> What exactly are "unified file names"?  I'm not sure I understand the
> term as you are using it.

Current, in XEmacs, EFS filenames look like /user@host:/some/file,
whereas Tramp filenames look like /[method/user@host]/some/file.
Tramp filename unification means to change the square-bracketish
notation into a colon-ish notation, to use
/method:user@host:/some/file for both EFS and Tramp.

Note that it is possible to omit the method, so that
/user@host:/some/file continues to be a valid filename.  Tramp
provides ways to configure the default method.  For example, in the
default configuration, /root@localhost:/some/file is equivalent to
/su:root@localhost:/some/file, whereas /[email protected]:/some/file is
equivalent to /ftp:[email protected]:/some/file.

The defaults are set up such that downloading packages with the old
filenames continues to use EFS.

Kai