Re: tramp (2.1.16-pre); backtrace for windows connection problem

[Dave Abrahams]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The 2nd command yields this prompt:
>>
>>   $  PS2=
>
> That's the problem. Tramp expects "$ " as prompt in this case. Somehow,
> your shell on the remote system does not like a command like
>
> # exec env ENV='' PROMPT_COMMAND='' PS1=\$\  PS2='' PS3='' /bin/sh

Yeah, but using quotes instead of backslashes fixes it

> Which shell do you run after login?
>

This is cygwin bash, but IIRC I had the same problem with msys bash.

Connection doesn't work at all if I just run the windows shell.


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