Re: Tramp & Cygwin

[Michael Albinus]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've spent several weeks trying to make Tramp running with Cygwin's
>> ssh. Finally I gave up, because I didn't find a way to cooperate with
>> their pseudo tty. Starting Cygwin's bash first, and afterwards ssh
>
>> Because this belongs to the top list of "Tramp's annoyances", I would
>> appreciate any new idea what to do.
>
> The manual mentions using ssh-x as a workaround.

I guess you mean the Tramp manual.

"sshx" is like "ssh" except it uses twice the -t parameter calling
Cygwin's ssh. That is reported to have worked in the past, but with
recent Cygwin it doesn't work. Last time I've checked half a year ago,
I doubt it has changed.

Best regards, Michael.