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tramp configuration on windows with cygwin

Cygwin should have:

emacs—I use the x version of emacs (not xemacs)
ssh
make

I recommend you get these things working first. Then download and install tramp according to the INSTALL instructions.

Tramp can be found at savanah, at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tramp. When I was looking for the install files the savanah site had recently been hacked and the download area was disabled. I found another copy (at debian, I think). Here’s a local copy: tramp_2.0.38.orig.tar.gz

The tramp install seems to trip on the spaces in windows path names, so I moved the tramp distribution to /cygdrive/c/tmp and did the install from there.


   $ ls
   tramp-2.0.38  tramp_2.0.38.orig.tar.gz.tar

   $ pwd
   /cygdrive/c/tmp

   $ mv tramp-2.0.38/ tramp
   $ cd tramp

   $ ./configure
   configure: Tramp 2.0.38
   checking for make... make

	(stuff deleted)
   $ make
   make<sup><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup>: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/tmp/tramp/lisp'
(stuff deleted)
   $ make lispdir='/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/kfelkins/My Documents/emacs-lisp' infodir=/usr/info install
   make<sup><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup>: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/tmp/tramp/lisp'
(stuff deleted)
   $

I did the following post install:

I edited the ‘dir’ file in /usr/info and added the following line in the emacs section in alphabetical order:

* TRAMP: (tramp).       Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol
                        Emacs remote file access via rsh and rcp.

added the following lines to my emacs


 (require 'tramp)
     (setq tramp-default-method "sshx")

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