How to use ssh tramp on Emacs Windows?

Author: Solène

Date: 18 January 2017

Tags: emacs windows

NILIf you are using emacs under Microsoft Windows and you want to edit

remote files through SSH, it's possible to do it without using Cygwin.

Tramp can use the tool "plink" from putty tools to do ssh.

What you need is to get "plink.exe" from the following page and get it

into your $PATH, or choose the installer which will install all putty

tools.

[Putty official website](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)

Then, edit your emacs file to add the following lines to tell it that

you want to use plink when using tramp

(require 'tramp)

(set-default 'tramp-default-method "plink")

Now, you can edit your remote files, but you will need to type your

password. I think that in order to get password-less with ssh keys,

you would need to use putty key agent.