At Tue, 4 Jan 2011 05:40:30 -0600,
Leo Alekseyev wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I am trying to achieve the following: any link of the form
> [[/ssh:host:/path/to/file]] should, when followed, be translated to
> [[/plink:host:/path/to/file]] (without being textually altered, of
> course).
>
> The reason for this is that Emacs Tramp under Windows refuses to
> cooperate with OpenSSH and can't handle SSH links.  The only
> workaround I've found is to use the plink protocol instead of SSH.
>
> I think what I'm trying to achieve is possible with
> org-link-translation-function, but my naive attempts haven't been
> successful...  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Maybe this might help:

(defun dmaus/org-mode/org-link-ssh-to-plink (type path)
  "Return plink: link with PATH if TYPE is ssh."
  (cons type (if (string-match "/ssh:" path)
		 (replace-match "/plink:" nil nil path)
	       path)))

(setq org-link-translation-function 'dmaus/org-mode/org-link-ssh-to-plink)

HTH,
 -- David
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