Re: Weird behaviour when entering the filename

[Michael Albinus]

Francis Moreau <address@hidden> writes:

>> You see, that the "ls" comman adds some control characters, likely for
>> coloring. You must suppress it on the remote side. See the Tramp manual
>> for instructions.
>>
>
> Ok but I did include this on the remote side in .profile:
>
>    alias ls='ls --color=never'
>
> And if I log to the remote host, then the alias is effective.
>
> Since tramp is using absolute path to call ls(1) then the alias has no
> effect, I think.

IIRC, ash does not support aliases. But I might be wrong.

> I searched in the documentation to see which var can be customized in
> order to append '--color=never' to the ls command but I fail to find
> the answer.
>
> Could you give me a pointer ?

You can set $LS_COLORS. Try this one:

  (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-process-environment "LS_COLORS=co")

Best regards, Michael.