Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Without this patch I was getting a void variable error
Thank you for fixing that one.
> and couldn't connect to any user/host that used colour control
> characters in the shell prompt.
I don't like that part of the change. Why didn't you look why I
introduced \\' in the first place? There was a reason for me to do
that.
/----
| 2002-05-22 Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| * tramp.el (tramp-find-shell, tramp-open-connection-telnet)
| (tramp-open-connection-rsh, tramp-open-connection-su)
| (tramp-open-connection-multi, tramp-multi-connect-telnet)
| (tramp-multi-connect-rlogin)
| (tramp-open-connection-setup-interactive-shell): Shell prompt
| must match at end of buffer.
\----
Oh, now I see that there was no reason given. Sorry about this. So
here is the reason: a lot of people have a motd that contains things
like this:
/----
| Linux lucy 2.4.19-pre10-ls6 #1 Wed Jun 5 11:13:06 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
\----
A lot of people have a shell-prompt-pattern which says that something
followed by `#' (or `$' or `>' or some other characters) is a shell
prompt. (This is in fact the default value on Emacs, I think.)
Now you can quickly see that Tramp will get confused: it recognizes
the above line as a shell prompt and starts sending commands to the
remote end. But the real shell prompt comes later and is mistaken for
the reply to the first command sent. Need I say more? :-{
I think it does not really make sense to require people to change
their motd on all remote machines. (They probably don't have
permission to do that anyway.)
Therefore I suggest to take a different approach: tell their shell
init files to abstain from ansi escapes in shell prompts when $TERM
is "dumb". Tramp conveniently sets $TERM to "dumb" for this very
reason :-) (They probably have permissions to frob their shell init
files.)
If that is not possible, they can still add the ansi escapes to
shell-prompt-pattern...
Opinions?
> BTW, what happened to the "tramp-checkins" list? I'm not getting CVS
> commit notices anymore. :-(
I hope I have recreated the list. I forgot to do that before. I have
copied and pasted magic into CVSROOT/loginfo and CVSROOT/commitinfo
without a deeper understanding of what's going on.
kai
--
It does not work to power-cycle a machine without a deeper
understanding of what's going on.
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