How can I make Emacs TRAMP offer completions from my ~/.ssh/config?
When I want to access remote files over sftp in Emacs using TRAMP, I would like Emacs to offer me completions from the hostnames in my ssh config. How can I do this?For example, if I have two hosts in...
View ArticleHow can I tell Emacs TRAMP to use specific arguments to ssh?
I'm trying to set up my Emacs TRAMP to access remote files via ssh, and I would like to add some additional arguments to the ssh command that tramp uses for connecting. Is there a way to do this?I...
View ArticleOSX Emacs FTP Failing
I use Emacs from Bash. I use C-x C-f to FTP into servers, to work on files. From my OSX (10.6.x), I can connect to all of my servers, but one. From Ubuntu, I can connect to all of my servers, period....
View ArticleEmacs: Prevent TRAMP connection closing
I'm using emacs with TRAMP ( C-x C-f /ftp:user@site.com:/ ), and randomly, sometimes ten minutes, sometimes, ~12 seconds (no exaggerating) my connection will close (I think). I'll try to type, or list...
View ArticleSlow TRAMP mode in Emacs
How can I make Emacs TRAMP mode faster?I have ControlMaster auto in my SSH config, and it is working:$ time ssh -v debel echo fooOpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011debug1: Reading configuration...
View ArticleHow to specify for emacs tramp which remote shell to open?
Besides opening remote files, tramp can be used to run a remote shell. Unfortunately, there is a problem. On a local machine i have zsh and on remote server only bash is installed. Issuing M-x shell...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot Aquamacs / Emacs - Problems opening files with TRAMP
How to troubleshoot Aquamacs, or I guess standard Emacs troubleshooting techniques should work with Aquamacs too. In this case i'd want just to raise the logging level, but i'm interested in other...
View ArticleChanging the auto-save frequency when editing files via Tramp / SSH
I am using Emacs (23.3.1) with Tramp to edit files on a remote SSH server. Right now these files are being auto-saved / auto-uploaded about once every minute. During each upload, anything I type does...
View ArticleEmacs TRAMP not activated with Dired
I've been using TRAMP for a few days now. It works very well for the most part. I can load a remote shell using M-x shell, and ido-mode with find-file works very well remotely as well, which was...
View ArticleEmacs tramp mode - filename auto complete doesn't work
I am using tramp mode in Emacs to edit files over ssh. But the problem is that on remote shell I have aliased ls as "ls --color". Tramp uses ls for auto completion and it is unable to parse color coded...
View ArticleEmacs24: tramp does not work with plink anymore
I have been using Emacs+tramp+plink to edit files on remote Unix server since Emacs 22. Recently I upgraded my Emacs to 24, and found it no longer works any more ... it says it found remote shell...
View ArticleEmacs tramp, version control and toggle-read-only
When using emacs 24 w/tramp on remotely RCS-controlled files, the toggle-read-only function (^X^Q) does not issue the usual "This file is under version control, blah, blah". Instead it flips the...
View ArticleTramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
I have an issue with tramp against a specific host when I use ssh-keys for authentication. It works fine when I don't use ssh-key authentication, but I would like to prevent entering the password all...
View Articleemacs tramp working with gnome-keyring-daemon
Right now I have gnome-keyring-daemon set to start at login. If I run emacs -q and then open a file on a server using M-x find-file and then enter a file on a remote server such as...
View ArticleTramp Issue in Emacs 24.4 Installed through Homebrew
I recently installed Emacs 24.4 through homebrew through the commandbrew install emacs --cocoaI need to edit the files in a remote cluster with two step authentication. To do this I save the login...
View ArticleConnect to shared drive from Emacs on Windows 7
I am using emacs-w32.exe, invoked from Cygwin, on a Windows 7 machine. I'm trying to connect to a shared drive that I can otherwise access and write to (e.g., by using the Windows explorer), but I am...
View ArticleHow to disable auto-save in emacs only for files opened as root
I want to use emacs auto-save feature with tramp, but only for file that I don't open using sudo. My current configuration, based on the tramp documentation, looks like this:;;;;;;;; BAKUCP ;;;;;;;;;;...
View ArticleHow do you copy files from a remote server to a local folder in emacs using...
When I use tramp to open a remote directory (say C-x C-f /ssh:user@example:/somedirectory), it opens up a dired buffer for that remote directory. The problem is that I want to copy directories and or...
View ArticleTRAMP constantly re-opens connection over ssh
I'm attempting to use TRAMP to for editing files remotely with Emacs (v 26.1), but I'm finding that it's nearly impossible to work without the connection constantly being re-established. This makes it...
View ArticleDirectly open remote shell with tramp in emacs
I find that the best to run my shells in remote machines in emacs is using TRAMP (using the ssh command in a local shell does not work for my needs). However, I only know how to run a TRAMP shell if I...
View Articleaccess smb share via emacs tramp mode - repeatedly prompting for password
If I use smbclient from the command line on a unix host to access a windows server share (happens to be a windows server in an Active Directory domain), it works fine. I can access directories and...
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