Re: Patches for Emacs 25.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:55:55 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> No. But the OP said "As a result, Tramp hangs while connecting to NetBSD
> >> host." To me, it looks also like a valid reason to add this to Emacs 25.2.
> >
> > Can you tell when (in which Emacs version) was this problem
> > introduced?
> 
> Well, it started with bug#17295, which set remote $HISTFILE to
> "/dev/null". Released with Emacs 24.4.
> 
> Then there were bug reports 19731, 21697 and 23041, which reported a bash
> bug when setting this. So the new defcustom `tramp-histfile-override'
> was introduced in Emacs 25.1.
> 
> With bug#20446, Glenn reported a new problem with the previous fix. His
> bash history was nuked. So I've committed another fix, also for Emacs 25.1.
> 
> And now we have bug#24478, also purely due to a remote bash. Given this
> history, a fix shall go to Emacs 25.2.

It sounds like you are telling me the history of bug#24478, which I
have no doubt should be fixed in 25.2.  I asked about bug#24698, which
is about TAB expansion, AFAIU.