Re: tramp (2.1.15-pre); [Feature Request] Multihop sudo

[David Abrahams]

On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > > OK, this is *almost* what I needed.  I really want a way to say
> > > > *don't
> > > > multihop when it's localhost*, so I can have a fallback rule that
> > > > uses
> > > > `.+' as the pattern for the hostname.  Any chance of that one?
> > >
> > > What about
> > >
> > >    (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
> > >                 '("\\`localhost\\'" nil nil))
> > >
> > > as first rule in `tramp-default-proxies-alist'?
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, that won't match because TRAMP seems to use the  
> > result of
> >
> >  $ hostname
>
> But that's the same as (system-name) in ELisp. So you can write
>
>    (add-to-list 'tramp-default-proxies-alist
>                 `(,(format "\\`%s\\'" (system-name)) nil nil))


Yes, of course I can.  However, as I wrote, this is not achievable  
with the customize UI, and I think it's an important enough use case  
that it should be made possible with customize.

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