Re: tramp (2.6.0.29.1 nil/nil); Provides option to disable shortened multi-hop tramp file name

[Michael Albinus]

Warren Lynn <wrn.lynn@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Warren,

> Again, I was upgrading from Emacs 26.3 to 29.0.91 (Linux), and found
> shortened multi-hop tramp file names are mandatory now. I am sure many
> people like this feature, but my own preference is to have every
> multi-hop tramp file name to be self-contained, with all the hops
> included in the name.
>
> The reasons are:
> 1. When I work with multiple remote hosts, a look at a tramp dired
> buffer name like "/docker:56a0b1537acd:/mnt/data" (shortened from
> something like
> "/ssh:host1|sudo:root@host1|docker:56a0b1537acd:/mnt/data") cannot
> quickly tell me which host this directory is on.
>
> 2. When recentf stores only the shortened name, I could not open it
> directly without first connecting to the host, which I do not know
> from the file name alone.
>
> 3. I have my own utilities and advices on top of tramp and found it
> hard to deal with shortened file names as the names do not contain all
> the hop information.
>
> Thanks for giving the above some consideration.

I will work on this. However, it won't be a short shot, it might take
some days.

> Warren

Best regards, Michael.