Re: tramp (2.0.28); ange-ftp stopped working

[Michael Albinus]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Method `tramp-ftp-method' didn't 
> specify a connection function")

OK, that's clear. I should have seen that yesterday already :-(

Fixed on 2003/01/02 in CVS. So I propose you take the recent Tramp
from CVS. Or Kai prepares Tramp 2.0.29 for Emacs 21.3.50. Or you apply
the following patch to tramp-ftp.el:

===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tramp/tramp/lisp/tramp-ftp.el,v
retrieving revision 2.4
retrieving revision 2.5
diff -u -r2.4 -r2.5
--- tramp/tramp/lisp/tramp-ftp.el       2002/12/21 21:32:59     2.4
+++ tramp/tramp/lisp/tramp-ftp.el       2003/01/02 22:21:03     2.5
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@
 
 ;; Add some defaults for `tramp-default-method-alist'
 (add-to-list 'tramp-default-method-alist
-            '("\\`ftp\\." "" tramp-ftp-method))
+            (list "\\`ftp\\." "" tramp-ftp-method))
 (add-to-list 'tramp-default-method-alist
-            '("" "\\`\\(anonymous\\|ftp\\)\\'" tramp-ftp-method))
+            (list "" "\\`\\(anonymous\\|ftp\\)\\'" tramp-ftp-method))
 
 ;; Add completion function for FTP method.
 (unless (memq system-type '(windows-nt))