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

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Andreas Politz <politza <at> fh-trier.de>
Cc: 13677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13677: 24.2.50; workng on remote hosts with eshell is not very enjoyable
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:58:34 +0100

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

> emacs -Q
> M-x eshell
> cd /ssh:somehost.com:
> stat .
> stat .
> ...
>
> Every stat command starts a new tramp process, which, in my case, takes
> about 3-4 seconds to get going and renders eshell fairly useless for
> this kind of work. 
>
> Can this be changed such that eshell uses start-file-process only if the
> command results in a background process and use process-file otherwise ?

I fear that is not possible in general. The command could be
interactive, requiring user input. This would not be possible with
process-file.

And eshell does not know in advance, whether an external command runs
interactively.

> Andreas

Best regards, Michael.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.