Questions tagged [tramp]
TRAMP is ‘Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol’ for editing remote files from Emacs.
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How can I use my local Emacs client as the $EDITOR for remote machines I access over TRAMP?
I often use TRAMP to manage several remote servers, both for editing files and running remote shells in shell-mode. However, this does not work when a command uses the EDITOR variable to edit a file, ...
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Honor default-directory in ansi-term
When I launch an ansi-term in a remote (TRAMP) buffer, I'd like the resulting shell to reflect the current default-directory. That is, I'd like ansi-term to give me a remote shell, so I can do things ...
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Running ipython remotely
I am trying to run an ipython interpreter remotely (with Emacs 24.5 and native python.el), but I'm not sure I have the right approach: whenever I try to run such a command for instance (which gets ...
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Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
I added two new lines to my .bashrc so that Bash can find my Go programs:
GOROOT=/Users/jay/work
PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
But as a result, when I launch Emacs, Emacs hangs for several minutes and I ...
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Emacs suspend at startup ssh connection issue
I toggled the debug-on-error and debug-on-quit options, then press C-g when Emacs suspend.
Got this error output:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
call-process("ssh" nil t nil "-o" "ControlPath=...
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Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell… Sending command `exec ssh -e none bin'
Tramp hangs for several minutes every time I launch Emacs, giving me these errors:
Tramp: Opening connection for bin using scp...
Tramp: Sending command `exec ssh -e none bin'
Tramp: Waiting for ...
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Eshell doesn't reuse TRAMP connection for remote subprocesses
I was trying to operate on remote host using eshell and was disappointed to discover that majority of operations would hang emacs for several seconds.
I found it surprising considering that normally ...
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Can Emacs use tramp to run in an interactive session on a remote HPC node?
I have been using Emacs with ESS and tramp to load remote files and run remote R processes on HPC computers. With ssh keys, tramp makes this easy with C-x C-f to find file at /ssh:myserver:/path/to/...
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Tramp/Dired transfers files inline over ssh instead of using scp externaly
I am using tramp via ssh to access remote files. For text files, this is working really well, but whenever I want to copy larger remote files to my local machine, tramp uses its slow inline method (...
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How do I make tramp+eshell use my environment customized in the remote ~/.bash_profile
I have set up custom $PATH in my ~/.bash_profile on a remote machine (for programs installed user-locally by nix and cabal).
I use eshell and tramp to issue commands on the remote machine (cd /...
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Tramp with 2-factor authentication
I need to use Tramp to connect to a server that has 2-factor authentication.
When I log in from the command line or from I get a message asking me to press 1 (and hit enter) which then sends a popup ...
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Executing remote commands with TRAMP with a single SSH connection
I'm able to use TRAMP fine for reading/writing files on a remote server. I only have to login to the server the first time I open a file, and from then on I can open files without being prompted to ...
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Tramp login with 2-factor authentication
To ssh, the server I am connecting to needs a password followed by an RSA-like key.
It goes:
Password:
Verification code:
I've read Tramp with 2-factor authentication, but it does not solve the ...
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.tramp_history files
I have noticed that opening a tramp connection on remote hosts sometimes created a .tramp_history file in the user's directory. Is there any way to disable such a behavior? I have to log in to many ...
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remote tramp eshell session changes to localhost
I start a tramp dired session to a remote host with C-x d /ssh:user@host:/ and then start eshell with M-x eshell.
This places me at the dired path on the remote host, however as soon as I try to cd ...
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OS X ~ vs Linux ~ in Tramp
I'm setting up a remote editing capability through Tramp from my Mac OS X laptop to an Ubuntu box, and have defined the following:
(setq tramp-default-user "myusername"
tramp-default-host "...
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How to debug hanging tramp connections?
With recent versions of Emacs, tramp routinely hangs at the time of making the connection.
The *Messages* buffer gives no information.
Is there a way to get more information as to what's happening?
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Tramp just hangs “Found remote shell prompt on”
When I try to connect to my office computer with tramp: C-x f "/ssh:office:" it shows me the message: "Found remote shell prompt on" and then completely hangs. I have to terminate with C-g, if I hit ...
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magit with tramp is not working with git correctly
I installed magit. I added the following lines to my .emacs:
(require 'tramp)
(push "/path/to/git/directory/" tramp-remote-path)
And when I am in tramp I run M-x magit-version here is the output:
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Get TRAMP working with cygwin sshd
I'm using both the latest Cygwin and the latest (released) Emacs. I'm trying to remote in from a Linux box to a Windows box running a Cygwin configured sshd.
I've added this line to the top of my ....
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ctags over tramp
A lot of things including M-x compile work fine over tramp, but find-tag seems to be the exception: it attempts to jump to a location in a local file.
Would someone investigate why it's doing this, ...
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Are there TRAMP mode log files? If so, how to access them?
Having here some troubles with TRAMP mode and already set (customize-set-variable 'tramp-verbose 6 "Enable remote command traces") in .emacs file.
But main problem is that Emacs is stuck in TRAMP ...
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How can I diagnose which `git` magit is running?
I'm trying to use Magit with TRAMP. The remote host has multiple git versions, necessitating
(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/usr/sup/bin")
in my .emacs. However, when I run magit-status in a ...
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cant connect with TRAMP (tramp-file-name-handler: Couldn’t find local shell prompt for /bin/sh)
I have a weird issue in emacs with TRAMP. i can ssh via M-x ssh to a machine (zlap) from within emacs with no issue. yet when i try to use C-x C-f (find file) it hangs after i enter the passphrase. ...
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magit with tramp is slow
Here is my environment:
project A is on the server. My PC connects to the server by 1 Gbit ethernet. Ping latency between PC and server are about 0.3 ms.
project A's source code size is about 75 MB. ...
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How to resolve TRAMP spamming empty messages
Connecting to a remote machine with tramp that may have VC (subversion) related
files, I tend to see a large number of repeated messages in the *Messages*
buffer. For example:
Type "q" in help ...
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tramp and sudo: how to edit files under another account
On local machine, I am using the account as test1, and I could use the same account to login remote server. After login as test1 on remote server, I could run sudo su - oracle to change as oracle user,...
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Tramp using su fails with powerline prompt
I'm having a weird problem opening files as root. From emacs -Q, I issue (require 'tramp), customize tramp-verbose to 10, and try to open a file as root: C-x C-f /su::/etc/fstab. I'm then prompted for ...
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Eshell and Dired are unable to extract port number from authinfo file
My default-directory is: /ssh:lawlist@12.34.567.89#2222:/home3/lawlist
My .authinfo file contains: machine 12.34.567.89 login lawlist password abcdefg
The above-combination works just fine. ...
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tramp runs on odt export --
this is slightly embarrassing, but i'm confused about it so:
i run emacs 26.1, org 9.3.
when i use the org exporter to export a file to odt format, tramp fires up and runs on the newly created file. ...
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Can't connect to remote ssh host using tramp on Windows
I have 2 operating systems: Windows XP and Linux Slackware.
In both operating systems I have the following text in ~/.ssh/config:
Host beta
HostName <server IP>
User beta
Port 22
I can ...
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How do I open an ansi-term on a remote server via Tramp?
I am editing a file on a remote server via Tramp, and I decide that I want to open up an ansi-term session on the remote server (as opposed to relying on shell-command). How do I do this? When I run ...
