Category: emacs
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: “File exists, but cannot be read”
I had a look here and look there for hours, … – accidentally I looked into the *Messages* buffer and found, that some file access within c:windowstemp failed. The system variables TEMP and TMP are initialized with c:windowstemp, but I have no rights to look into c:windowstemp. Alright, system variables can get overridden. And they actually were…
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if saving a file through “tramp” is not successful, ending “PLINK.EXE” may be a solution
PLINK.EXE is part of the PuTTY family, and it’s the utility tramp is communicating through. “Burying” the respective tramp buffer in emacs is another one. Update 2016-02-09: Actually burying the tramp buffer in question is my 1st approach on all platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows), whenever tramp communication seems to be stuck. Afterwards (with a “clean new start”) everything…
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I would really love to get an Emacs diary entry created on outgoing e-mail
For incoming e-mail I already get a diary entry suggestions created by my “procmail log-file to diary” converter, but outgoing e-mail messages are also worth an entry in my diary. Yes, of course, I can always Cc or Bcc myself, but I would still have to … – alright, … – extended my .procmailrc, letting…
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the Emacs tramp mailing list and gmane
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/tramp-devel
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Emacs and VC AKA Version Control and an excessive list of handled backends
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customizing-VC.html I am working for a customer on WinXP with GNU Emacs 24.2.1 through Tramp resp. putty plink (“pscp”) on AIX files. They are using CVS on AIX, but as I am actually the only Emacs user there, I don’t really bother going through the set-up for using Emacs with CVS on WinXP. Recently I…
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how to let GNU Emacs “Untabify Upon Save”?
EmacsWiki: Untabify Upon Save There are colleagues, that don’t want to see tabs in scripts sources, that I edited. Apparently there isn’t a nice switch saying, that there shouldn’t be tabs in a certain file.
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my latest GNU Emacs on OS X: Emacs Daily Build 2013-09-11
Emacs Daily Build 2013-09-11 »: Universal Binary built on Mac OS X 10.6.8, 45.89 MB.See the differences from the last build.
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Emacs + tramp + putty = you can edit your UNIX files remotely “anywhere”, even on Windows
http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/ TRAMP extends the capabilities of the emacs “directory editor” (dired) to allow you to also deal with remote files. “Remote” as in: you can reach the file or directory through ssh or sftp or ftp or … SSH on Windows – PuTTY:On Windows platforms it can make use of the PuTTY family of utilities…
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GNU Emacs for Microsoft Windows resp. Mac OS X
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006488 – “Learning GNU Emacs“ The quoted book points for Mac OS X and Windows implementations exclusively to these web pages, but pls regard both as outdated: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html Update: As of 2016-01 here are the best sites for Windows “Emacsen”: cygwin provides w32 and also X11 binaries — I am about to give them a try…