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RE: [h-e-w] Navigation with file-find
From: |
Dr Francis J. Wright |
Subject: |
RE: [h-e-w] Navigation with file-find |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:30:19 +0100 |
> From:
> address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden
> rg] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam
> Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 1:11 pm
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [h-e-w] Navigation with file-find
>
> How can one navigate to a remote machine from file-find?
>
> Can it be done without invoking tramp or ftp?
>
> That is, other windows based tools allow a selection under
> File/open by navigating to `Network neighborhood' and then
> on to what ever destination... vie smb.
>
> Is something similar possible in emacs..?
On my system, I can do find-file //xxx.maths.qmul.ac.uk/home/ and then use
dired to navigate from there within NT Emacs, where xxx represents our
departmental NFS server and I run the Microsoft NFS client; something
similar should work with smb. This does not use tramp or ftp. However,
completion does not seem to work well.
But what I actually do in practice is open the remote directory I want to
work in using Windows Explorer and then invoke Emacs on a remote file or
directory via gnuclientw using the Explorer context menu. I have the roots
of two remote directory trees assigned to drive letters so that they show up
in Explorer, which I find much more convenient that using Network
Neighbourhood. I used Network Neighbourhood only when I was setting up my
NFS client.
Francis