Re: `tramp-**-handle-insert-directory` does not handle empty directories well

[Michael Albinus]

Ruiyang Wu <ywwry66@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Ruiyang,

> Thanks for maintaining this great software. Recently I started to use
> Tramp and found that opening an empty directory in dired-mode from the
> remote machine (ssh in my use case) displays a string
> "//DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=literal” which is not intended for
> human read. Opening an empty directory on my local machine does not
> have this. It looks like the following code from files.el deals with
> this scenario:
>>       ;; Take care of the case where the ls output contains a
>>       ;; "//DIRED-OPTIONS//"-line, but no "//DIRED//"-line
>>       ;; and we went one line too far back (see above).
>>       (forward-line 1))
>>     (if (looking-at "//DIRED-OPTIONS//")
>> (delete-region (point) (progn (forward-line 1) (point))))))
>
> I use Emacs 28.2 with built in Tramp 2.5.3.28.2. I tried the latest Tramp 
> 2.6.0.2 and see the same behavior.

Could you pls apply the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ssh -Q -l tramp --eval '(setq tramp-verbose 6)' /ssh:user@host:/empty/dir
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

with proper values of /ssh:user@host:/empty/dir. The error shall happen,
and there will be a buffer *debug tramp/ssh user@host*. Please send this
buffer as attachment.

> Best,
> Ruiyang

Best regards, Michael.