Re: tramp (2.2.5-pre); tramp hangs - waiting for prompt from remote shell

[Sebastian Schmitt]

Hi Michael!

On 06/03/2013 10:00 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Sebastian Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:
>> Thanks. I've attached the debug buffer.
>>
>> 09:32:32.298103 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # 
>> Last login: Mon Jun  3 09:30:46 2013 from 
>> schmitt-laptop.physi.uni-heidelberg.de
>> hepix: TERM dumb changed to vt100.
>> ^[]0;address@hidden: ~ $ ^[[K
> 
> Well, Tramp does not understand your prompt. For readability, I have
> replaced non-ASCII chars by their ASCII representation in this message.

I don't have color but the following prompt:

export PROMPT='address@hidden: %~ $ '

When I remove the square brackets '[' and ']', tramp does recognize my
prompt. I understand that non-ASCII confuses tramp, but square brackets?

> I recommend to suppress prompt coloring on your remote host. You could
> do this with the following line in your remote ~/.profile:
> 
>   [ $TERM = "dumb" ] && PS1='$ '

I tried that but missed that hepix changed "dumb" to "vt100".

Best,

Sebastian