the addition of tramp to Emacs broke my ability to use ange-ftp for some hosts

[Chris Moore]

In Emacs 21.2 I used to be able to find-file on
"/address@hidden:/" and have ange-ftp transparently connect
to that host via FTP.

With a recent Emacs build, however, I just get an error message
telling me "ssh not found" or some such.

Upon investigating the cause of this, it turns out that 'tramp' is
deciding when to use FTP and when to use SSH according to what the
hostname looks like.

tramp-default-method-alist controls this.

By default I would expect tramp to know that any hostname starting
with 'ftp' followed by some numbers would be an FTP server.  Currently
I think it has to begin with "ftp." to be recognised.  Perhaps
removing the dot would be appropriate, or perhaps "\\`ftp[0-9]*\\." is
a better RE to use as the default.

Chris.



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