Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using a remote/shared location for planner files

[Alex Kavanagh]

At Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:47:04 +0100 (BST),
Richard Fieldsend wrote:

> The idea is to run a planner system on two different
> systems (home and work) which I can use from both
> locations, keeping track of my stuff I do wherever I
> do it.

I do this at the moment.

> 
> Currently I run two different instances, using a
> ~/plans/ directory on my home machine and c:\plans\ on
> my work machine.  What I'd like to do is use the ftp
> remote editing to place the plans at something like:
> 
> /address@hidden:/plans/
> 
> The publishing directory would be on the same server
> but located seperately.
> 
> Problems that I can foresee:
> 
> i. my home system is a Linux box, my work system a
> Windows machine (not by choice!). Sharing the file
> between the two might cause problems
> 
> ii. ownership issues because of Windows broken
> security model.
> 
> So, has anyone tried it? Was it successful?

I don't do it this way.  I make sure that I don't use the two machines
simultaneously and then I use unison (and multi-platform
bi-directional file sync that works on windows and *nix) to keep
things in sync.

I make sure that I sync before and after using planner on my desktop
and laptop.

It actually works very well.

I'm not too sure if line endings (CR vs. CR/LF) will be a problem as I
don't use Windows - all my machines are Linux.  I managed to drop
windows about 10 months ago.

> 
> For information I am using the Muse port of planner as
> I also run a few other Muse 'projects', which are all
> joined together in one publishing directory on my
> remote server. 

I'm still on emacs-wiki.  Does the muse port of planner work as well
as the emacs-wiki based one?

Cheers
Alex