Re: [h-e-w] Ange-ftp stalls intermitently

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:08:38 -0400
Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:

#> address@hidden writes:

#>> I am using Emacs on Windows-XP with ange-ftp to edit files on a
#>> remote Unix system (SunOS).

#>> When this works, it works great! :-), but there also seem to be
#>> phases where Emacs will hang while accessing the remote site with
#>> ange-ftp.

I can (could? I rarely use ange-ftp nowadays) observe similar
behaviour. My guess always was that it is related to the fact that
remote host closes the connection due to some timeout, but local Emacs
does not recognise this fact and keeps waiting for an answer.

If you use C-g and retry the command, does it work? Does it reconnect
to the ftp server? It did for me.

#> Sometimes this makes sense, but it is almost always better to run
#> Emacs on the remote system, and display locally in an X client.

I disagree... it is almost always better to have only one local copy
of Emacs running -- it can share the kill ring, command histories and
other things this way. Seriously, it's mostly a matter of taste.

-- 
 Best wishes,
   Slawomir Nowaczyk
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