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From: thomas@utah-cs.UUCP (Spencer Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Emacs with IBIS
Message-ID: <3053@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 15:30:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 15:30:21 1984
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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