Re: windows cmd.exe shell

[Ben Hyde]

On 30 Oct 2018, at 12:54, Michael Albinus wrote:

"Ben Hyde" <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Ben,

It has, after decades of resistance, become fairly easy[1] to run
and openssh’s sshd service on window. I’m embarrassed to ask this,
but does this august gathering have any sage advice about how to
leverage that via tramp?

Well, I also resist to use MS Windows. From time to time I'm urged to do
it, answering Tramp questions ...

now i’m both embarrassed and i feel guilty.

…a proper shell on MS Windows. If you
know where to find such a shell (a file name), we could try to convince
Tramp to go there.

I was able to install one, and I took a stab at using it:

(add-to-list 'tramp-methods
             '("wssh"
               (tramp-login-program "/tools/msys64/usr/bin/sh.exe")
               (tramp-login-args (("-l" "%u") ("-p" "%p") ("%c") ("-e" "none") ("%h")))
               (tramp-async-args (("-q")))
               (tramp-remote-shell "/tools/msys64/usr/bin/sh.exe")
               (tramp-remote-shell-login ("-l"))
               (tramp-remote-shell-args ("-c"))))

But no joy

I bet i’m doing something obviously wrong there, but if not I’ll get back to digging
on this sooner or later. Thanks ! - ben