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I'm trying to open a remote shell after connecting to a machine using Tramp with the plink method on MS Windows.
However every time I call shell it prompts me for 'Remote shell path' and suggests a local directory. I think I have to type /plink:Server:/bin/bash to be able to run the shell.
Is there any way to avoid having to do this every time I want to run shell on a remote machine?
You can use explicit-shell-file-name for this:
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "/bin/bash")
The disadvantage is, that this setting is valid for all shell buffers you open, local and remote ones. In the upcoming Emacs 26, there is support for connection-local variables. This will give you the ability to set explicit-shell-file-name for different remote machines with a different value.
