Re: Command output, tabs, and OpenBSD

[Dale Sedivec]

On 10/14/10 2:55 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Could you, please, try the following patch (untested):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> *** /home/albinus/src/tramp-2-1-stable/lisp/tramp.el.~2.814.~   2010-08-23 
> 20:23:06.000000000 +0200
> --- /home/albinus/src/tramp-2-1-stable/lisp/tramp.el    2010-10-14 
> 09:44:49.000000000 +0200
> ***************
> *** 7062,7067 ****
> --- 7062,7071 ----
>            "^FreeBSD" (tramp-get-connection-property vec "uname" ""))
>           500 0))))
>
> +   ;; On BSD, ?\t is expanded to spaces.  Suppress this.
> +   (when (string-match "BSD" (tramp-get-connection-property vec "uname" ""))
> +     (tramp-send-command vec "stty -oxtabs" t))
> +
>      ;; Set remote PATH variable.
>      (tramp-set-remote-path vec)
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

	This patch fixed my issue when applied to TRAMP 2.1.18 in Emacs 23.2. 
Thanks!

> stty's "-oxtabs" seems to exist for BSD only, that's why I have added the
> check. It might not be sufficient for all cases; MACOSX (which is also
> BSD-like) might return another string for "uname -s". Do you know what
> it returns (you run it on your local machine).

        Indeed uname [-s] returns just "Darwin" on OS X.

$ uname
Darwin
$ uname -a
Darwin dale 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 
2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Dale