Re: Prompt matching issue - Couldn't `stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U''

[Richard Hill]

Hi Michael,

Thanks very much for your help and quick response.

Yours,

Richard.


Michael Albinus wrote:
> Richard Hill <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> Hi,
>
> > When I attempt to open a remote file on a Redhat Linux box over ssl
> > (plink), the login hangs on:
> >
> > apply: Couldn't `stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U''
> >
> > The final apostrophe appears to be causing the problem... removing
> > this last apostrophe and executing the resulting line in a shell then
> > seems to work fine (removing character echo etc).
>
> Nope. It is just the message format which causes the double apostrophe,
> it prints "Couldn't `%s'".
>
> > Below I have pasted the last of the output from the Emacs message
> > buffer. Thanks very much for the help,
>
> Here you see the command sent by Tramp:
>
> > And the buffer contains:
> >
> > stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U'
> > $ $
>
> Your problem is the returning double dollar (meaning double prompts),
> which is a problem known from Tramp 2.0 (bundled with Emacs 22). It is
> not easy to fix, because it is due to a race condition.
>
> Tramp 2.1, which will come with Emacs 23, has fixed it. So maybe you
> install Tramp 2.1, or you give Emacs 23 a try (which starts its pretest
> these days).
>
> > Richard
>
> Best regards, Michael.