Re: Emacs unconditionally loads tramp.el

[Jason Rumney]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> The thing I find annoying is I've never been able to get it to work on MS
> Windows - I need to be able to get to a GNU/Linux box from Emacs on Windows,
> but I was never able to log in with Tramp. Kai Grossjohann spent some time
> trying to help me get it to work over a year ago, but we never succeeded in
> understanding the problem. I gave up. Perhaps I'll try again after the
> release comes out....

There are "plink" methods for working with PuTTY's command-line
terminal. I think Cygwin's ssh port expects to be run from an
interactive Cygwin bash shell, so doesn't work well under Emacs.