Re: TRAMP password caching

[Richard Stallman]

    I think we should revert the default to ssh rather than scp: the behavior of
    the ssh method is much cleaner/smoother/userfriendly.  Its only downside is
    a lesser performance but I think this is a secondary issue.

I think the first thing to do is try to fix these bad behaviors.  That
ought to be done regardless of which method is the default, and if
they are fixed, there would be no reason to change the default.