Re: tramp (2.0.55); dired-show-file-type broken on remote dirs

[Michael Albinus]

Trent Buck <address@hidden> writes:

> In remote directories like /ssh:fs:~/Desktop, I can type
>
>     ! file RET
>
> to find out about a file type, but
>
>     y
>
> which is bound to dired-show-file-type returns errors of the form
>
>     tmp.txt: ERROR: cannot open `tmp.txt' (No such file or directory)
>
> It would be nice if the latter worked.

It does with Tramp 2.1.

Background: "y" is bound to dired-show-file-type, which applies
call-process internally. "!" is bound to dired-do-shell-command, which
uses shell-command internally.

Execution of call-process on remote hosts is implemented in Tramp 2.1
only.

Best regards, Michael.