Re: Tramp 2.1.9

[Pete Forman]

At 2007-04-19 14:48 +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Plink does not allow to overwrite all options via the command line,
> indeed. But the following seems to work:
>
> plink -t -l user host TERM=dumb /bin/sh
>
> The patch below introduces a new method "plinkx". This shall work also
> with your "xterm-configured" sessions.

That only works with a Bourne type default shell on the target.

plink -t -l user host env TERM=dumb /bin/sh

is more portable, AFAIK.


Actually there are a number of items that can be set in the PuTTY
session registry that are not easily available on the command line:
TERM, other environment variables, remote command.  Perhaps it would
be better to have a "plinks" method with tramp-login-args of
(("-load" "%h")).  This would broaden the meaning of "host" in Tramp
syntax, so the documentation would need updating.  Alternatively
introduce %s for session into the login-args syntax.

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