Okay, so no objections to clarifying that users need to ensure they bind tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies to non-nil in advance of any multi-hop connections? I can mention both, as succinctly as I can in the footnote and docstring, and refer readers to the Tramp manual entries in the shell bookmark manual?

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> Is there any harm if people who want to achieve what I outlined bind
> tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies to non-nil? If that works in the way I
> suggest, why not recommend it?

There is no harm, if you set it before a connection is established, as
your tests have shown. But you should know the consequences, which I
have described last message.

Best regards, Michael.