From: Kai Großjohann Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:55:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention Tramp. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~14559 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3d82b69376f58a9f3027fb4729486c861ab5470;p=emacs.git Mention Tramp. --- diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index ae71db832b9..eff43f7d71f 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2002-06-18 Kai Gro,b_(Bjohann + + * NEWS: Mention Tramp. + 2002-06-16 Eli Zaretskii * TUTORIAL.fr: New version from ,AI(Bric Jacoboni . diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index fcc9102b83c..b9743d31932 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -811,6 +811,21 @@ Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User Manual. A menu item was added to the menu bar that makes it easy accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference). +*** Tramp is now part of the distribution. + +This package is similar to Ange-FTP: it allows you to edit remote +files. But whereas Ange-FTP uses FTP to access the remote host, +Tramp uses a shell connection. The shell connection is always used +for filename completion and directory listings and suchlike, but for +the actual file transfer, you can choose between the so-called +`inline' methods (which transfer the files through the shell +connection using base64 or uu encoding) and the `out-of-band' methods +(which invoke an external copying program such as `rcp' or `scp' or +`rsync' to do the copying). + +Shell connections can be acquired via `rsh', `ssh', `telnet' and also +`su' and `sudo'. + --- ** Indentation of simple and extended loop forms has been added to the cl-indent package. The new user options