Re: Tramp behavior differs in gnu and cygwin emacs

[Michael Albinus]

Frederick Bartlett <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Frederick,

> I've been using tramp via plink in cygwin's 32-bit emacs without any
> trouble and recently downloaded the 64-bit version from gnu.org.

Well, there is a difference between the cygwin and the gnu version of
Emacs: the former opens locally a posix shell (bash or whatever), and
the latter opens locally the Windows cmd.exe. This makes a difference in
the prompt.

> When I attempt to connect, I get the message
>
> Tramp: Opening connection for <me>@<there> using plink...
> Couldn’t find local shell prompt for C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
> Tramp: Opening connection for <me>@<there> using plink...failed
> tramp-file-name-handler: Couldn’t find local shell prompt for
> C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
>
> And yet I do get a prompt in the *tramp/plink <me>@<there>* window:
>
> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
> Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> c:\Users\<me>\AppData\Local\Temp - Thu 03/23/2017 -  9:12:46.39 >

Here we are. The prompt looks really uncommon to me, mainly due to the
"- Thu 03/23/2017 -  9:12:46.39" part. Could you suppress this?

> I've played around with shell-prompt-pattern, to no avail.

How did you change it? Could you show the values of
`shell-prompt-pattern' and `tramp-shell-prompt-pattern'?

> Thanks!
> Fred

Best regards, Michael.