bug#48067: 28.0.50; Tramp error: cannot determine gio monitor

[Michael Albinus]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Hello Michael,

Hi Thierry,

> What I did: M-x helm-find-files => /sudo::/home/thierry/tmp/
> Looks the watchers are recorded with a warning though.

That's OK. The warning tells us that it is an older gio version, which
doesn't want to speak about its implementation details. Not a big deal,
Tramp handles this.

> Then I delete test.txt from external terminal.
> It seems the watcher catched the event but the notification is with the
> local name of directory instead of the remote name.
> I.e. /home/thierry/tmp/ instead of /sudo::/home/thierry/tmp/
> not sure if it is normal.

That's OK. gio doesn't know Tramp and its syntax :-)

> 14:39:28.298343 tramp-sh-gio-monitor-process-filter (6) # #<process gio>
>
> (gio monitor:27194): GLib-GIO-%1b[1;33mWARNING%1b[0m **:
> %1b[34m14:39:28.217%1b[0m: Can't find module 'help' specified in 
> GIO_USE_FILE_MONITOR

And here's the problem. The warning includes escape sequences, which are
not known to tramp-sh-gio-monitor-process-filter. So I've reworked the
patch as attached, could you pls test?

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.

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