Re: Tramp + eshell

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Daniel Kraus <daniel@kraus.my> writes:
>
>> Then you can "lcd /" and you would end up in "/plinkx:Eval:/".

Thank you Daniel for this idea, I now understand the concept of eshell
better.

> Or
>
> (defun eshell/lcd (&optional directory)
>   "Like regular 'cd' but don't jump out of a tramp directory.
> When on a remote directory with tramp don't jump 'out' of the server.
> So if we're connected with sudo to 'remotehost'
> '$ lcd /etc' would go to '/sudo:remotehost:/etc' instead of just
> '/etc' on localhost."
>   (setq directory (or directory "~/"))
>   (unless (file-remote-p directory)
>     (setq directory (concat (file-remote-p default-directory) directory)))
>   (eshell/cd directory))

Thank you Michael for your version.

It's working nicely for me. :-)

   Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany