Re: [h-e-w] Re: Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows

[Michael Albinus]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

>> Running OpenSSH from an Emacs shell buffer doesn't work when you are
>> with Cygwin. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.windows/2564
>
> This is a little strong.
>
> I use Cygwin 'ssh' under Emacs a lot. What doesn't work is when ssh
> tries to prompt for a passphrase, or for other user input (like "do
> you want to save this host").
>
> So I launch ssh-agent, do ssh-add, then launch emacs. I also do the
> first login to any machine outside Emacs; after that I can use ssh
> quite nicely under Emacs.
>
> It could be better, but it's functional.

I'll document it this way in Tramp. But given the amount of reported
problems, recommending PuTTY as default when running a native GNU
Emacs seems to be more robust.

Best regards, Michael.