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| author | Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> | 2020-07-07 09:21:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> | 2020-07-07 09:21:48 +0200 |
| commit | f0fab2670ebef7ce9523922bfea097c3a0034bbe (patch) | |
| tree | 2ad760b4042b84387185885e0debdbb9a1460db9 /helm-help.el | |
| parent | 84c400599253f8c2616f0da36d8e1436aefbffba (diff) | |
Update HFF help
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diff --git a/helm-help.el b/helm-help.el index ed27a991..2e200636 100644 --- a/helm-help.el +++ b/helm-help.el @@ -710,6 +710,18 @@ You can customize `helm-dwim-target' to behave differently depending on the windows open in the current frame. Default is to provide completion on all directories associated to each window. +*** Copying/Renaming from or to remote directories + +Never use ssh tramp method to copy/rename large files, use +instead its scp method if you don't want to come out of memory +and crash Emacs or the whole system. Moreover when using scp +method, you will hit a bug when copying more than 3 files at the +time, see [[https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/1945][bug#1945]]. +The best way actually is using Rsync to copy files from or to +remote, see [[Use Rsync to copy files][Use Rsync to copy files]]. +Also if you often work on remote you may consider using SSHFS instead +or relaying on tramp. + *** Copying and renaming asynchronously If you have the async library installed (if you got Helm from MELPA you do), you @@ -723,7 +735,7 @@ When `dired-async-mode' is enabled, an additional action named \"Backup files\" will be available. (Such command is not natively available in Emacs). See [[Use the wildcard to select multiple files]] for details. -**** Use Rsync to copy files +*** Use Rsync to copy files If Rsync is available, you can use it to copy/sync files or directories with some restrictions though: |