Re: Alternatives to tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> writes:

> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> Gary writes:
>>
>>> I'm absolutely fed up with tramp's inability to play nicely with other
>>> modes.
>>
>> You mean modes that implement alternative completion styles like ido,
>> iswitchb, lusty-explorer, and friends, right?
>
> Not only, but possibly also:
>
> Desktop mode and tiny-desktop (tramp tries to restore the remote
> buffers, but fails because - unsurprisingly - it doesn't have a password
> at startup, so the desktop packages then whine because they could not
> reopen the buffers);

It is not because of Tramp, it is because of major modes which do not
handle remote files pretty well. Have you written a bug report?
OK, let's handle desktop.el. It has the variable `desktop-files-not-to-save',
which shall prevent saving remote file names in ~/.emacs.desktop. If it
doesn't for you: could you, please, show the value of this variable as
well as the contents of ~/.emacs.desktop, which triggers to load remote
files the next startup?

> Flymake (see previous posts, although Michael says he has patched things
> since then);

Hmm. Could you be a little bit more verbose?

> There was at least one other, but I can't recall exactly what it was now.

Sigh.

> Anyway. I'm just using scp now. More manual steps, but at least nothing
> complains.

Best regards, Michael.