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The boxes I'm working with are locked down and only have the SSH port (22) open, so I can't use directory tracking via FTP. But directory tracking is really handy.

There has to be a way. Does anyone know of a method or library that will do dirtrack-mode via SSH?

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  • I've never used shell over TRAMP (as it's of little use for me, I just prefer to use a proper terminal outside of Emacs). Have you tried starting shell from a buffer that's pointing to a remote file? I recall the ! command in dired doing the right thing and executing commands on the remote machine.
    – user12563
    Commented Feb 22, 2019 at 20:48
  • Yeah, I was able to get it to at least set the default-directory on login by adding this: (setq default-directory (concat "/ssh:" ssh-remote-user "@" ssh-host ":~")) to my custom wrapper arround the ssh command. But it doesn't update when I change directories. This is much better than nothing, I'm just surprised this doesn't exist.
    – Jeff Gran
    Commented Feb 22, 2019 at 21:48

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There is shell-dirtrack-mode which is said to work also on remote shell buffers via Tramp.

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