You can refer to files on other machines using a special file
name syntax: /host:filename /user@host:filename
/user@host#port:filename /method:user@host:filename
/method:user@host#port:filename To carry out this request, Emacs
uses a remote-login program such as ftp, ssh, rlogin, or telnet.
You can always specify in the file name which method to use—for
example, /ftp:user@host:filename uses FTP, whereas
/ssh:user@host:filename uses ssh. When you don't specify a
method in the file name, Emacs chooses the method as follows:
tramp-default-methodis set to ‘ftp’, Emacs uses FTP. You can
entirely turn off the remote file name feature by setting the
nil. You can turn off the feature in individual cases by quoting
the file name with ‘/:’ (see Quoted File Names). Remote file
access through FTP is handled by the Ange-FTP package, which is
documented in the following. Remote file access through the
other methods is handled by the Tramp package, which has its own
manual. See The Tramp Manual. When the Ange-FTP package is