|--==> "KG" == Kai Gro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KG> Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Without this patch I was getting a void variable error
KG> Thank you for fixing that one. You're welcome. >>and couldn't connect to any user/host that used colour control >>characters in the shell prompt. KG> I don't like that part of the change. Why didn't you look why I KG> introduced \\' in the first place? There was a reason for me to do KG> that. I isearch'd lisp/ChangeLog for "regexp" but it didn't turn up anything useful. :-( KG> /---- KG> | 2002-05-22 Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] KG> Oh, now I see that there was no reason given. Sorry about this. So ...I wouldn't have found what I was looking for anyway. :-P KG> here is the reason: a lot of people have a motd that contains things KG> like this: KG> /---- KG> | Linux lucy 2.4.19-pre10-ls6 #1 Wed Jun 5 11:13:06 CEST 2002 i686 unknown KG> \---- Ah! Good reason to have "\\'" in the regexps. I'll revert that part of the patch in a jiffy. And... KG> Therefore I suggest to take a different approach: tell their shell KG> init files to abstain from ansi escapes in shell prompts when $TERM KG> is "dumb". Tramp conveniently sets $TERM to "dumb" for this very KG> reason :-) ...do that. Please accept my apologies for breaking things. >>BTW, what happened to the "tramp-checkins" list? I'm not getting CVS >>commit notices anymore. :-( KG> I hope I have recreated the list. I forgot to do that before. I have KG> copied and pasted magic into CVSROOT/loginfo and CVSROOT/commitinfo KG> without a deeper understanding of what's going on. I'll see if I get a notice when I fix up this patch. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>---| _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
