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31.0.50; Cannot create bookmark to chained TRAMP connection

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 76457 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76457: 31.0.50; Cannot create bookmark to chained TRAMP connection
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:21:14 +0530

[வெள்ளி பிப்ரவரி 21, 2025] Sean Whitton wrote:

> X-debbugs-cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a role account on a machine where I have to SSH to the machine as
> spwhitton and then use sudo to do things as the role account.
>
> I can get to it like this:
>
>     C-x C-f /ssh:t2u-oracle|sudo:tag2upload-oracle <at> t2u-oracle:~/ RET
>
> This opens a dired buffer, which is a useful place to start working on
> the machine.
>
> But if I then use C-x r m to create a bookmark to get back there more
> quickly, the bookmark is created with the filename property set to
> "/sudo:tag2upload-oracle <at> t2u-oracle:~/" which is wrong, as visiting that
> bookmark would try to access an account on localhost.
>
> I can work around this problem by manually editing my bookmarks file.

I think you want tramp-save-ad-hoc-proxies to be non-nil.  See bug#65039
where a similar discussion is being held.

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