  5. Using TRAMP  Once you have installed TRAMP it will operate
fairly transparently. You will be able to access files on any
remote machine that you can log in to as though they were local.
Something that might happen which surprises you is that XEmacs
remembers all your keystrokes, so if you see a password prompt
from XEmacs, say, and hit RET twice instead of once, then the
second keystroke will be processed by XEmacs after TRAMP has
done its thing. Why, this type-ahead is normal behavior, you
say. Right you are, but be aware that opening a remote file
might take quite a while, maybe half a minute when a connection
needs to be opened. Maybe after half a minute you have already
forgotten that you hit that key!  5.1 TRAMP filename
conventions   5.2 Multi-hop filename conventions   5.3 Filename
completion   5.4 Dired   5.5 Compile remote files     5.1 TRAMP
filename conventions  To access the file localname on the remote
machine machine you would specify the filename
`/[machine]localname'. This will connect