Neat. Remember all those years ago when you were opening and editing files on remote servers using Emacs and its Ange-FTP module? Remember how it all went bad back during the war when packet sniffers became common, and you couldn't trust your password to the wires, anymore? Remember the joy you felt when you realized that ssh, scp, and sftp had it within their power to fix all that for good and all as soon as all those benighted ISPs opened port 22 to their secure shell servers instead of those stupid other ports and their clear-text protocols? Remember the angst you felt waiting for some Lisp guru to take pity on your pathetic ineptitude with with her parenthetical language and code you up an SSH-based file I/O substrate for your favorite horned text processing system? Remember the bleak years of despair and hopelessness you spent trashing random windows boxes, wracked with frustration as your Emacs-nox was denied you by petty bureaucrats and ill-conceived Win32 solutions?
Rejoice now, all ye stricken!
http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
One (1) prop to the KDE Help System and its authors, that's where we discovered all this... would add another if there was a way to provide a bookmark into the desktop help system, here - as is, I don't even have the hierarchical path info - just the document title [TRAMP version 2.0.57 User Manual], which doesn't seem to be useful in finding the file within the help system, as the "search" function has some grievance that remains un-addressed....
