Re: tramp (2.1.14); TRAMP hangs with sudo and su method after querying my password

[Tassilo Horn]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Michael,

>> In M-x shell, its value is "23.0.60.1,comint" here.  It would be nice if
>> TRAMP would set it to something like "<emacs-version>,comint,tramp", so
>> that users have a mode finegrained control of what's invoking the shell.
>
> I'll do so, thanks for the pointer. It will look like
> "23.0.60.1,tramp:2.1.14".  comint is not involved, so I let it out.

Great, thanks!

> However, it wouldn't help in the given case, because Tramp failed
> already recognizing the prompt after applying the "sudo"
> command. Setting $INSIDE_EMACS will happen later.

Really?  shell-mode has to recognize the prompt as well, uses the same
regexp and it works there.

Anyway, we'll see when it's implemented.

Bye,
Tassilo