On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> >     I'll check, whether I can improve this in Tramp.
> >
> > Perhaps something as simple as a buffer-local in either the main
> > buffer or in the remote buffer, accessible via
> > with-connection-local-variables?
>
> My idea is rather to extend expand-file-name. If
> tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies is non-nil, it should return the whole ad-hoc
> multi-hop remote file name. Something like this.
>
> (I thought it is simple, but it looks a little bit more complex.)
>

The original multi-hop file name is gone by then
if tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies is nil globally. Let-binding
tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies to t in a function context still has to have a
way to get the original remote file spec.