Warren Lynn <wrn.l...@gmail.com> writes: Hi Warren,
> Again, I was upgrading from Emacs 26.3 to 29.0.91 (Linux), and found > shortened multi-hop tramp file names are mandatory now. I am sure many > people like this feature, but my own preference is to have every > multi-hop tramp file name to be self-contained, with all the hops > included in the name. > > The reasons are: > 1. When I work with multiple remote hosts, a look at a tramp dired > buffer name like "/docker:56a0b1537acd:/mnt/data" (shortened from > something like > "/ssh:host1|sudo:root@host1|docker:56a0b1537acd:/mnt/data") cannot > quickly tell me which host this directory is on. > > 2. When recentf stores only the shortened name, I could not open it > directly without first connecting to the host, which I do not know > from the file name alone. > > 3. I have my own utilities and advices on top of tramp and found it > hard to deal with shortened file names as the names do not contain all > the hop information. > > Thanks for giving the above some consideration. I will work on this. However, it won't be a short shot, it might take some days. > Warren Best regards, Michael.
