Re: remote file editing over ssh with emacs 22.3.1 on Windows/Mac

[Michael Albinus]

Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> writes:

>> So for every remote host you want to access, you might create a putty
>> session, which includes the host and user names. Let's call such a putty
>> session "somehost", with host name "somehost.somedomain" and user name
>> "cwithers". Likely, you have done this already.
>>
>> Than you can add two rules:
>>
>>   (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>>     '(nil "\\`root\\'" "/plinkx:%h:"))
>>
>>   (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>>     '("\\`localhost\\'" "\\`root\\'" nil))
>
> I think this second one is redundant, right?
> (as I'm on Windows, sudo'ing to localhost is a bit of a no-go ;-) )

Yes.

> cheers,
>
> Chris

Best regards, Michael.