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

[Warren Lynn]

Hi Michael,

I verified your latest patch works. Thanks a lot for your quick action.

Best regards.

Warren

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 9:02 AM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

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

> Hi Michael,

Hi Warren,

> I actually put in a similar patch as yours myself, and found that is
> not enough. The tricky part is when tramp-make-tramp-file-name is
> called by tramp-make-tramp-hop-name, the hop name must be omitted (set
> to nil). Otherwise, we will get into some infinite loop. For other
> cases, keep the hop. With that additional consideration, it works for
> me, although I do not know how the whole system works and the code is
> really hacky. Maybe you can give some thoughts on that?

I've seen the same problem in my regression tests. See a reworked patch
appended. Note also, that I have renamed the new user option to
`tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies', in order to be consistent with other
variable names.

> Thanks.
>
> Warren

Best regards, Michael.