Re: tramp (2.1.12); Expects remote shell to be in same place?

[David Abrahams]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I am using a Linux client machine and accessing a file on a FreeBSD
>> host.  If I do `M-x shell' while the current buffer is the remote file,
>> tramp tries to start a remote shell.  Cool!  However, my local shell is
>> /bin/bash and on FreeBSD, bash is in /usr/local/bin/bash, so the command
>> fails.
> 
> See "C-h f shell RET":
> 
> | shell is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `/usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/shell.elc'.
> | 
> | (shell &optional buffer)
> | 
> | Run an inferior shell, with I/O through buffer (which defaults to 
> `*shell*').
> | Interactively, a prefix arg means to prompt for buffer.
> | If `default-directory' is a remote file name, it is also prompted
> | to change if called with a prefix arg.
> | 
> | If buffer exists but shell process is not running, make new shell.
> | If buffer exists and shell process is running, just switch to buffer.
> | Program used comes from variable `explicit-shell-file-name',
> |  or (if that is nil) from the ESHELL environment variable,
> |  or (if that is nil) from `shell-file-name'.
> 
> So your best choice might be to set `explicit-shell-file-name'.
> Something like this (untested):
> 
> (defadvice shell
>   (around my-advice-shell activate)
>   "Set shell program name for remote execution."
>   (let ((explicit-shell-file-name "bash"))
>     ad-do-it))
> 
> This shall work when /bin (on your local host) and /usr/local/bin (on
> the remote host) are in $PATH. You could do something more
> sophisticated, including absolute paths, of course.

Michael,

Thanks for getting back to me!  That almost works.  My shell prompt on
the remote server, which is supposed to be:

  address@hidden ~]$

comes out looking like this:

  ///f8e83e40392c00bfe1ec5080435518e0

clearly something is getting scrambled.

Really it should be possible to set this up on a per-server basis,
though, n'est-ce pas?





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