tramp and recentf

[Robert Marshall]

I enable recentf in my .emacs, if I have recently (in the last emacs
session) edited a file such as /su:address@hidden:/var/log/syslog
(via tramp) on starting emacs I get asked for a password - I assume it
is checking for the file's existence (I realise there's a possible
debate as to whether or not this is a good thing!)

However the password prompt is just 'Password:' with no indication of
the user, so if I had recently edited
/su:address@hidden:/.emacs and
/su:address@hidden:/.emacs

I get two password prompts with no visible indication which is which!

I suggest the prompt ought to read when using su as a method and a
password is necessary (when starting up or maybe by default) -

         su:<user>@hostname Password:
Robert

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
 of 2005-09-07 on faure.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk
X server distributor `Mandrakelinux (X.Org X11 6.8.2, patch level 7.1.102mdk)', 
version 11.0.60802000
configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t