Re: Remote asynchronous processes

[Michael Albinus]

> Am 06.08.2020 um 21:08 schrieb Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>:
> 
> Hello Michael,

Hi Sean,

> 
>> On Tue 04 Aug 2020 at 02:27PM +02, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> 
>> Finally, I've committed a respective patch to Emacs master. Read the
>> Tramp manual (info "(tramp) Improving performance of asynchronous
>> remote processes") about.
> 
> I hope you don't mind me replying here to ask a question about this.
> 
> Is there a way to turn this on for all SSH connections which don't use
> multi-hops?  I.e. all SSH connections originating from localhost with no
> further hops?  I imagine this is something a lot of users would want to
> turn on.
> 
> I assume it would be unwise to use
> 
> (add-to-list 'tramp-connection-properties
>                  '("\\`/ssh:.+:/"
>                  "direct-async-process" t))
> 
> or similar, because there can be implicit multi-hops thanks to tramp
> tramp-default-proxies-alist and tramp remembering used proxies.

That's a good idea. Will implement a fallback to Tramp's "classic" 
implementation of make-network, when there are multi-hops, or stderr is given.

This will take some days before it happens, due to vacation time.

> Sean Whitton

Best regards, Michael.