GNU bug report logs - #13677
24.2.50; workng on remote hosts with eshell is not very enjoyable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Politz <politza <at> fh-trier.de>

Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.2.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 13677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Politz <politza <at> fh-trier.de>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 13677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13677: 24.2.50;
	workng on remote hosts with eshell is not very enjoyable
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:55:59 +0100

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> 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
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