Tramp#

The user manual is available Here

Initiate all examples with C-x C-f

Examples#

Edit the file .emacs in your home directory on the machine melancholia.

/melancholia:.emacs

Edits the same file, using the fully qualified domain name of the machine.

/melancholia.danann.net:.emacs

Also edits the same file — the is expanded to your home directory on the remote machine, just like it is locally.

/melancholia:~/.emacs

This edits the file .emacs in the home directory of the user daniel on the machine melancholia. The ~<user> construct is expanded to the home directory of that user on the remote machine.

/melancholia:~daniel/.emacs

This edits the file /etc/squid.conf on the machine melancholia.

/melancholia:/etc/squid.conf

Autoload#

Put the following code in your .emacs file or put it in a file call tramp.el in your .emacs.d folder

;; allow opening over ssh
(require 'tramp)
; (setq tramp-default-method "scp")
(setq tramp-default-method "ssh")
(setq tramp-default-user "arcoleo")