Re: How to stop TRAMP from asking for sudo password on every startup?

[Michael Albinus]

Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:32:53AM -0700, Jason Rumney wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 9:45 am, Jonathan Groll  wrote:
>> 
>> > This problem seems to have
>> > started after I opened some buffers with /sudo::/ , from what I can
>> > tell there is nothing in my .emacs or custom.el actively starting
>> > tramp.
>> 
>> Do you use desktop.el or some other package that saves state between
>> sessions?
>
> Aha! You've set me on the right track, it was:
> (require 'recentf)
> (recentf-mode 1)

See variable `recentf-keep'. The following might prevent the trouble in
the future (I assume you're running Emacs 22):

  (add-to-list 'recentf-keep 'file-remote-p)

With Emacs 23, this won't be necessary.

> Many thanks,
> Jonathan.

Best regards, Michael.