Re: external methods not working on cygwin emacs

[Michael Albinus]

"James Yoo" <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael,

Hi James,

> It is strange, tramp dies saying that a sed command returned error.
> executing that same command via M-x shell works fine... other wise
> this version of tramp works with out-of-band methods when connecting
> to a linux box from cygwin.

I'm still not understanding what happens. Must be, as you said,
being related to the sed version on your remote Solaris machine.

Just a wild guess: Try the following patch (on top of recent tramp.el
from CVS):

*** /tmp/tramp.el.~1~   Wed Jun  7 18:11:06 2006
--- /tmp/tramp.el       Wed Jun  7 18:11:06 2006
***************
*** 5178,5184 ****
           "^FreeBSD"
           (with-connection-property vec "uname"
             (tramp-send-command-and-read
!             vec "(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null | sed -e s/^/\\\"/ -e s/\\$/\\\"/")))
          500 0))))
    ;; Set remote PATH variable.
    (tramp-set-remote-path vec)
--- 5178,5184 ----
           "^FreeBSD"
           (with-connection-property vec "uname"
             (tramp-send-command-and-read
!             vec "(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^/\\\"/' -e 
's/\\$/\\\"/'")))
          500 0))))
    ;; Set remote PATH variable.
    (tramp-set-remote-path vec)

Best regards, Michael.