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(tramp)Usage

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Using TRAMP
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Once you have installed TRAMP it will operate fairly transparently. You
will be able to access files on any remote machine that you can log in
to as though they were local.

   Files are specified to TRAMP using a formalized syntax specifying the
details of the system to connect to.  This is similar to the syntax used
by the Ange-FTP package.

   Something that might happen which surprises you is that Emacs
remembers all your keystrokes, so if you see a password prompt from
Emacs, say, and hit `<RET>' twice instead of once, then the second
keystroke will be processed by Emacs after TRAMP has done its thing.
Why, this type-ahead is normal behavior, you say.  Right you are, but
be aware that opening a remote file might take quite a while, maybe
half a minute when a connection needs to be opened.  Maybe after half a
minute you have already forgotten that you hit that key!

Filename Syntax

TRAMP filename conventions.

Multi-hop filename syntax

Multi-hop filename conventions.

Filename completion

Filename completion.

Dired

Dired.