Subject: bug#13677: 24.2.50; workng on remote hosts with eshell is not very enjoyable

From: Andreas Politz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:55:59 +0100

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>> I think you want to enable "ControlPersist" and/or related options [...]

> I've committed a patch to Tramp to use ControlMaster=auto whenever
> possible. This might speed up remote processes a little bit, but most of
> the startup time is still spent in Tramp's hand-shaking.

Yes, it does help a little.  (Though ControlPersist is not available on
this system.)

>
> It would be good if we could have a mechanism to say eshell, whether an
> external command shall run synchronously or asynchronously. 

What about letting the user decide, by having a second command like
eshell-send-input-synchronously ?

Andreas