Re: Eshell and Sudo

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Aidan Gauland <address@hidden> writes:

> No one, not even John Wiegley, seems to know why sudo/su works for some
> people and not others.  Debugging Eshell sudo/su is on my TODO list.  I
> don't even know whether this is an Eshell problem or a TRAMP problem.  I
> suspect tramp, since Eshell is only calling TRAMP (which should *not* be
> blowing up like it does for some people).

As a note, I do not think tramp should be involved by default in eshell/sudo.
This should be an optional module, em-tramp, which one can enable to bring in
such behavior.  It makes using sudo on localhost many, many times slower, with
no functional benefit.

Thanks,
  John