Re: Trouble getting ange-ftp to work

[Michael Albinus]

Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> On May 24, 8:06 pm, daniel <dan...@ackack.eu> wrote:
>> Sounds like index.php is not at the top level of the 'davin' directory. It's 
>> more likely in
> /home/users/davin/public_html/index.php and you're trying to get it
> at /home/users/davin/index.php.
>
> I tried C-x C-f on the following files but neither work:
>
> /davin@ftphost.ripway.com:index.php
> /davin@ftphost.ripway.com:public_html/index.php

Could you, please, show the contents of the buffer
*davin@ftphost.ripway.com*? It traces the underlying FTP sesion.

> I have looked at the documentation for tramp and it seems to be a
> better system than ange-ftp.  Would you recommend me getting the
> latest binaries of Emacs so that I can run Tramp out of the box?

If you want to connect via another method but ftp, it is the way to go.
You can also install Tramp 2.1.13, it is compatible with GNU Emacs 21.3.

Best regards, Michael.