With tramp methods now being mandatory, the term.el directory tracking
was generating invalid tramp paths on remote hosts.

I've rolled a patch for this (along with some very minor improvements
to the related commentary) in which I'm hard-coding the "ssh" method.
I'm not sure whether that's the ideal fix, but I suspect it's likely
to do the trick for most people, whereas the current code won't work
at all.


-Phil




In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
bars)
  of 2018-04-15 built on shodan
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 
11.0.11804000
System Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

Recent messages:
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GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
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