-p hack bug

[Paul Poh]

>Paul Poh wrote:
>> I'm a newbie with Tramp but I think there's a bug with the -p hack
>> for scp in Tramp 2.0.28.
>>
>> I notice that Tramp creates two ssh connections to the remote host
>> when retrieving files. The first connection does specify the -p
>> option and connects succesfully. But the second connection fails
>> because it attempts to connect to the incorrect port.
>>
>
> KaiGrossjohann replied:
>
>Tramp creates one ssh connection for doing filename completion and
>suchlike, and if you use scp, it will start another connection for
>each file transfer.
>
>In tramp-methods, you have to specify the port in both tramp-rsh-args
>and in tramp-rcp-args.  Did you do that?

Thanks for the tip. I did try that and it does work to a certain extent. 
But I was refering to the documentation which refers to the ability to 
specify the port number when using Tramp's filename syntax. 
Specifically, according to what I read in the documentation, it should 
be possible to specify:

/address@hidden:/tmp/filename

However, the port number 2222 is used only for the initial ssh connection.

I suppose I could create a new tramp-method if each system with varying 
port usage.