thomas@utah-cs.UUCP (Spencer Thomas) (10/02/84)
We put IBIS (the "remote file system" package available from Purdue) into our emacs #264 with essentially no changes to emacs. To have filename recognition work correctly on machine:file type filenames, you need to hack abspath slightly (so it thinks that that is an absolute pathname), but you can put cymbolic links in your root which obviate the need for this change: ln -s remote-machine:/ /remote-machine and, for consistency ln -s / /local-machine It's really nice being able to edit remote files as easily as local files, and especially being able to "cd" to a remote directory. Of course, filter-regions happen on the locally connected directory (but you could hack in the remote access shell there). It also points out the need for a time server too keep all the machines in sync, I get a lot of "file is modified ..." messages from the write time check. (Or is that a local hack?) (Please don't write me for IBIS, I think you can get it from tichy@Purdue.) =Spencer