Re: tramp (2.0.12); Strange error message; no password prompt

[Rainer Thiel]

At 22:11 17.08.02, Kai wrote:

>  Please try this patch

Please keep in mind I am trying to use Tramp on a Windows machine and ain't 
fully acquainted with the way Unix works (and the features cygwin offers).

I've tried to try the patch, though, and I think I succeeded (in trying it, 
that is).

I first tried to insert the patches manually, and corrupted tramp.el to the 
point the lisp code didn't run anymore when invoked in my .emacs.  I then 
at last realized the patch was probably meant to be used by a programme, 
and searched for a programme named `patch' in my cygwin.  Found that, I 
packed everything from

> RCS file: /cvsroot/tramp/tramp/lisp/tramp.el,v

(first line) to

>         tramp-file-name-regexp

(last line) in a file named patch.el, put the file in the same directory as 
tramp.el, switched to that directory in a shell and executed the command line:

patch tramp.el patch.el

---which appeared to succeed.  I am appending the resulting tramp.el 
(packed in a gzip archive to save upload time) to give you the chance to 
check whether the result is what you intended.

While I now do get a password-prompt, tramp appears to get trapped in a 
loop (Endloschleife)---it is asking again and again for the password.

> > tramp: Looking for Are you sure you want to continue connecting
> > (yes/no)\?
> >
> > Answering either 'yes' or 'no' has no obvious effect.
>
>
> Whee.  How can I solve this problem?  The message means that Tramp is
> waiting for stuff from the remote end, and it looks to see whether
> that stuff contains a specific pattern which happens to look like a
> question.
>
>
> It does NOT mean that Tramp is asking the user a question, it just
> looks for a question mark in the remote shell prompt (say).
>
>
> Do you have some idea how to make it more obvious?

Using quotation marks, perhaps?

As always, many thanks for your help,

Rainer

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