[gentoo-user] TRAMP is not working

[gentoo-user] TRAMP is not working

[Melleus]

Hi all!

After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it
often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it
complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and
local/remote files):

"Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh"

I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there
were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on
what's happening either.

Thanks ahead.

Re: [gentoo-user] TRAMP is not working

[J. Roeleveld]

On Monday, September 3, 2018 2:51:11 PM CEST Melleus wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it
> often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it
> complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and
> local/remote files):
> 
> "Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh"
> 
> I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there
> were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on
> what's happening either.
> 
> Thanks ahead.

Is "zsh" installed and working?

--
Joost

[gentoo-user] Re: TRAMP is not working

[Melleus]

"J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> writes:

> On Monday, September 3, 2018 2:51:11 PM CEST Melleus wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it
>> often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it
>> complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and
>> local/remote files):
>> 
>> "Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh"
>> 
>> I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there
>> were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on
>> what's happening either.
>> 
>> Thanks ahead.
>
> Is "zsh" installed and working?
>
> --
> Joost

Yes, sure. And it is available for Emacs terminal:

me@myhost ~ % sh
sh-4.4$ zsh
me@myhost ~ % exit
sh-4.4$ exit
exit
me@myhost ~ %     

[gentoo-user] Re: TRAMP is not working

[Melleus]

Melleus <melleus@openmailbox.org> writes:

> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> writes:
>
>> On Monday, September 3, 2018 2:51:11 PM CEST Melleus wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>> 
>>> After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it
>>> often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it
>>> complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and
>>> local/remote files):
>>> 
>>> "Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh"
>>> 
>>> I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there
>>> were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on
>>> what's happening either.
>>> 
>>> Thanks ahead.
>>
>> Is "zsh" installed and working?
>>
>> --
>> Joost
>
> Yes, sure. And it is available for Emacs terminal:
>
> me@myhost ~ % sh
> sh-4.4$ zsh
> me@myhost ~ % exit
> sh-4.4$ exit
> exit
> me@myhost ~ %     

I have found the solution: from now on there should be the following stanza:

[ $TERM = "dumb" ] && unsetopt zle && PS1='$ '

put in .zshrc file.

(source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/27410/cant-connect-with-tramp-tramp-file-name-handler-couldn-t-find-local-shell-prom#27418)

I do not quite understand why I could not find that in manual.
But anyway TRAMP is working now.