[Zope] Problem using EMACS FTP to Zope

David C. Morrill dmorrill@austin.rr.com
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:43:49 -0500


Just a follow-up to my problems:

1) Seems like 'ange-ftp-make-backup-files' is defaulted to 'nil' in the
Win32 version of EMACS. So you're ready to rock right out of the box.

2) The mysterious behavior disappeared overnight. Tried it again this
morning and it worked OK (sound of head being scratched).

Dave Morrill


> I have a couple of (I hope) simple problems using (Win32) EMACS ange-ftp
> support with Zope:
>
> 1) I want to use the '(setq efs-make-backup-files nil)' trick that's been
> mentioned previously, but being a total EMACS neophyte, I'm not sure what
> directory to put the '.emacs' file in. Can someone loan me a clue?
>
> 2) If I use ange-ftp to access a Zope folder, I get a nice 'dired'
listing.
> But when I select a DTML document/method to edit, I get another 'dired'
> listing containing just the selected file. If I select the file again from
> the new 'dired' list, I finally get the document I wanted, but the name is
> listed twice in the path: once as a directory, and again as the filename.
> Needless to say, this prevents me from saving the file (even if I chop off
> the extra filename, I still get errors saving the file). Anyone have any
> idea why this might be happening?