resetting xemacs' idea of home directory

Tim Connors tconnors at astro.swin.edu.au
Mon Apr 28 02:21:57 EDT 2008


On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, I wrote:

> Perhaps if gnuclient could accept a flag to tell it to tell emacs to 
> operate on a file on the remote's filesystem, with the requisite 
> bidirectional communications this would require (yay!  Yet another 
> protocol!), and the lack of an ability to use ange-ftp and tramp syntax 
> (since the user is explicitly asking for a file on the remote's local 
> filesystem, I see no harm in barring them from using tramp/ange-ftp 
> syntax).

That's a silly idea.  I just need to append the remote syntax to any 
filename supplied to my wrapper script under the right conditions.

-- 
Tim Connors



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