Re: can't see existing directory on remote machine... workaround

[ken]

On 10/8/20 11:17 AM, ken wrote:
> My emacs has a file loaded which resides in a directory on a remote
> (Linux) machine.  If from within that file's buffer window I run "C-x
> C-d RETURN" (to show the files in that directory, Emacs throws an error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Setting current directory"
> "No such file or directory" "/remo:~/dir/dir2/")
>   call-process("/bin/bash" nil t nil "-c" "\\ls -d -CF -- ")
>   #f(compiled-function (arg1 arg2 &optional arg3 arg4) #<bytecode
> 0x1fe9634981e3>)("/remo:~/dir/dir2/" "-CF" t nil)
>   ls-lisp--insert-directory(#f(compiled-function (arg1 arg2 &optional
> arg3 arg4) #<bytecode 0x1fe9634981e3>) "/remo:~/dir/dir2/" "-CF" t nil)
>   apply(ls-lisp--insert-directory #f(compiled-function (arg1 arg2
> &optional arg3 arg4) #<bytecode 0x1fe9634981e3>) ("/remo:~/dir/dir2/"
> "-CF" t nil))
>   insert-directory("/remo:~/dir/dir2/" "-CF" t nil)
>   list-directory("/remo:~/dir/dir2/" nil)
>   funcall-interactively(list-directory "/remo:~/dir/dir2/" nil)
>   call-interactively(list-directory nil nil)
>   command-execute(list-directory)
>
> When logged into that remote machine and cd'd into that same directory,
> the bash command in the second line of the debugger output yields this:
>
> $ ls -d -CF --
> ./
>
> I restarted emacs, but that changed nothing.
>
> When I try to open a new or an existing file in that directory, emacs
> prompts, offering to create the directory and its parent. 
>
> The emacs version, the latest available in this distro, is 27.1, release
> 4.1.
>
I found a workaround... I change the default, inserting "scp:" ... e.g.,
"/remo:~/dir/dir2/" -> "/scp:remo:~/dir/dir2/".  I doubt, however, that
this workaround will change the emacs code.

"/remo:~/dir/dir2/"