Re: Tramp and conversion of \r\n into \n

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Well, in Tramp the situation is different. It uses the default value t
>> for process-connection-type, because processes might ask for their
>> 'remote-tty' process property.
>
> I'm not sure I understand: do you mean that a Tramp client using
> `start-file-process` specifying a nil `process-connection-type` may
> still end up creating a process that uses a tty?

In general, a remote shell is opened, and the command is executed
there. So we have a tty.

An exception are the "direct async processes", introduced in Tramp
2.5. They call the command directly, w/o a remote shell. But they have
their limitations.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.