Michael Thanks for spot-on debug, yes looks like that was the problem. I had the following setting in my init file (setq dired-listing-switches "-hltFGH --time-style=long-iso --group-directories-first -*-color=auto*")
and that conflicts with tramp's --color=never requirement. i removed it and made it following (setq dired-listing-switches "-hltFGH --time-style=long-iso --group-directories-first") and it works fine now !!! Thanks for the prompt debug !! tramp rocks ! On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 12:26 AM Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote: > Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> writes: > > Hi Kiran, > > >> I am using TRAMP with emacs, when use dired to browse files on remote > >> machine i see lot of invalid characters > >> for example > >> for docs i see [01;34mdocs [0m/ > >> similarly for home i see [01;34mhome [0m/ > > > > This is colrized ls output ("[01;34m" is blue). Do you see it only in > > the Tramp debug buffer, or also in a dired buffer? > > > > Tramp tries to handle this, and a more recent Tramp should have no > > problem. Which Emacs / Tramp version are you using? > > I've just read your debug buffer again, and ls is called like this: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > 12:31:01.469621 tramp-send-command (6) # /usr/bin/ls --color=never --dired > -hltFGH --time-style\=long-iso --group-directories-first --color\=auto > --sort\=version --quoting-style\=literal --show-control-chars > /xxx/xxxxxxxxx/xxxx/. 2>/dev/null > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > "--color=never" comes from Tramp. But there are other arguments, like > "--color\=auto", which are not from Tramp, and which trigger ls output > colorization. Could you, please, check your customization? > > Best regards, Michael. >