bug#5198: 23.1; find-file tramp ipv6 not a wildcard

bug#5198: 23.1; find-file tramp ipv6 not a wildcard

[Kevin Ryde]

find-file thinks a tramp ipv6 filename like /[::1]:/etc/passwd has a
wildcard and dispatches it to file-expand-wildcards.  Eg.

    M-: (debug-on-entry 'file-expand-wildcards)
    C-x C-f
    /[::1]:/etc/passwd

gives

    file-expand-wildcards("/scp:[::1]:/etc/passwd" t)

I believe it shouldn't do this, ie. should not look at the remote
identifier part when considering wildness.

I struck this nosing around some options and defadvice tramp has for
xemacs remote filename forms, but the ipv6 raw address form tickles it
too.  Tramp thread "defadvice file-expand-wildcards ad-do-it value" at
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/6980


Not sure how bad this is.  It may depend how good file-expand-wildcards
is on remote filenames.  I seem to sometimes get max-specl-depth
exceeded by its recursion, but I don't have a good reproducing for that
yet, and in any case that would be a separate bug.



In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

bug#5198: 23.1; find-file tramp ipv6 not a wildcard

[Michael Albinus]

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> I've added a check in `file-expand-wildcards' to handle this case.
>
> Would find-file-noselect look at
>
>     (file-remote-p filename 'localname)
>
> like file-expand-wildcards now too?

No necessarily. It calls itself recursively with the result of
file-expand-wildcards.

> And/or would there be merit in a function that checked if there's
> wildcards in a filename (ie. anything file-expand-wildcards could
> expand), rather than a string-match?  It might help if new wildness was
> added one day, like bash style {xx,yy,zz} alternations or something.

Maybe. OTOH, one could introduce it, when the need arises.

Best regards, Michael.

bug#5255: marked as done (23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term)

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From: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:44:21 -0300
Message-ID: <9de1a5ef0912201844r45f00f26s82560a57251524d0@mail.gmail.com>

In emacs 23.1 when I use M-x term the prompt is rendered correctly to
whatever is defined on the PS1 environment variable. But in 23.1.90.1 it
prompts whatever is defined in the PS1 but also before that, it prompts
0;<user>@<host>:<location>.

The steps to reproduce it are quite simple:

emacs -Q
M-x term

The prompt is rendered like this:

0;fgallina@cuca:~/Builds/emacs[fgallina@cuca emacs]$

Since my PS1 is set to

PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

the expected result is:

[fgallina@cuca emacs]$

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.5)
 of 2009-12-20 on cuca
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10703901
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
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  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x t e r m <return>
<return> l s <return> M-c <backspace> M-x <backspace>
C-c b <return> M-x r e m p o <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
Cc: 5255-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5255: 23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:28:21 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200912281928.nBSJSLSU012776@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>

Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com> writes:

  > 2009/12/22 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
  > >
  > > This is an xterm specific escape sequence, most likely due to a bad
  > > setup, you'll get the same problem if you use a vt100 terminal for
  > > example.
  > > So this is not a term.el problem.
  > >
  > 
  > Thanks for the explanation, I just added this to my .bashrc and
  > everything started to work fine again:

I am closing this bug, it's not a bug in term.el

  > if [[ $TERM =~ ^xterm ]];
  > then
  > 	TERM=xterm-256color

Changing the value of TERM is a bad idea, unless you know exactly what
you are doing.

  > 	PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

Using PROMPT_COMMAND is not a good idea, the same thing can be done with
just setting the prompt.

bug#5334: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0; user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session

[Scott Bell]

Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
session ('ssh host'):

0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 

when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 

The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
another terminal emulator.	

bug#5334: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0; user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:

  > Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
  > NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
  > prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
  > session ('ssh host'):
  > 
  > 0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 
  > 
  > when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 
  > 
  > The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
  > another terminal emulator.	

You probably set  PROMPT_COMMAND to something that term.el does not
understand.

bug#5334: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0; user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session

[Scott Bell]

On 2010-01-07, at 2:37 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
> 
>> Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
>> NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
>> prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
>> session ('ssh host'):
>> 
>> 0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 
>> 
>> when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 
>> 
>> The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
>> another terminal emulator.	
> 
> You probably set  PROMPT_COMMAND to something that term.el does not
> understand.

That's correct. It looks like PROMPT_COMMAND on the 
remote machine is trying to set the title string.

Should term.el support this escape sequence? If not,
should it recognize it but take no action (and also
not print undesired output)? This seems like a fairly
common feature, but I could be wrong.

bug#5334: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0; user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:

  > On 2010-01-07, at 2:37 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > 
  > > Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
  > > 
  > >> Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
  > >> NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
  > >> prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
  > >> session ('ssh host'):
  > >> 
  > >> 0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 
  > >> 
  > >> when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 
  > >> 
  > >> The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
  > >> another terminal emulator.	
  > > 
  > > You probably set  PROMPT_COMMAND to something that term.el does not
  > > understand.
  > 
  > That's correct. It looks like PROMPT_COMMAND on the 
  > remote machine is trying to set the title string.

Does the PROMPT_COMMAND setting come from your .bashrc?
If yes, then:
1. never use it it's overkill, set PS1 to do the same thing instead.
2. when setting it, you need to set it conditionally, only when TERM==xterm

  > Should term.el support this escape sequence? If not,
  > should it recognize it but take no action (and also
  > not print undesired output)? This seems like a fairly
  > common feature, but I could be wrong.

That sequence should only be used for xterm.
It's been reported that this used to work in term.el in emacs-23.1, no
idea why it does not work now. I don't have any plans to figure out why
it does not work anymore, or to do anything about it.

bug#5334: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0; user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session

[Scott Bell]

On 2010-01-08, at 12:13 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2010-01-07, at 2:37 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> 
>>> Scott Bell <sctb@me.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
>>>> NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
>>>> prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
>>>> session ('ssh host'):
>>>> 
>>>> 0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 
>>>> 
>>>> when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 
>>>> 
>>>> The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
>>>> another terminal emulator.	
>>> 
>>> You probably set  PROMPT_COMMAND to something that term.el does not
>>> understand.
>> 
>> That's correct. It looks like PROMPT_COMMAND on the 
>> remote machine is trying to set the title string.
> 
> Does the PROMPT_COMMAND setting come from your .bashrc?
> If yes, then:
> 1. never use it it's overkill, set PS1 to do the same thing instead.
> 2. when setting it, you need to set it conditionally, only when TERM==xterm

It comes from the system bash initialization, I've now 
added PROMPT_COMMAND='' in my .bashrc on the remote 
machine.

>> Should term.el support this escape sequence? If not,
>> should it recognize it but take no action (and also
>> not print undesired output)? This seems like a fairly
>> common feature, but I could be wrong.
> 
> That sequence should only be used for xterm.
> It's been reported that this used to work in term.el in emacs-23.1, no
> idea why it does not work now. I don't have any plans to figure out why
> it does not work anymore, or to do anything about it.

That's certainly fine by me.

bug#5334: marked as done (23.1.91; Term mode prints "0;user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session)

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From: Scott Bell <sctb@me.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.91; Term mode prints "0;user@host:~" before each prompt of an interactive SSH session
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:07:57 -0700
Message-ID: <1D8FD52B-3B56-49A2-9818-75E7BAC8832D@me.com>

Under GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, 
NS apple-appkit-1038.25), Mac OS X 10.6.2, Term mode
prints the following prompt during an interactive SSH
session ('ssh host'):

0;user@host:~(host:~)$ 

when PS1 is set to '(\h:\W)\$ ' on the remote host. 

The string '0;user@host:~' is not displayed when using
another terminal emulator.	



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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 5255-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#5255
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:50:02 -0500
Message-ID: <9utyuqomkl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


This bug was closed recently, but unfortunately the close message was
lost from the Emacs bug database. I am therefore resending the close
message. Sorry for the duplicate mail. The original close message was

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2009-12/msg00689.html

    From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
    Subject: Re: bug#5255: 23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term
    To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
    Cc: 5255-done@debbugs.gnu.org
    Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:28:21 -0800 (PST)
    
    Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com> writes:
    
      > 2009/12/22 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
      > >
      > > This is an xterm specific escape sequence, most likely due to a bad
      > > setup, you'll get the same problem if you use a vt100 terminal for
      > > example.
      > > So this is not a term.el problem.
      > >
      > 
      > Thanks for the explanation, I just added this to my .bashrc and
      > everything started to work fine again:
    
    I am closing this bug, it's not a bug in term.el
    
      > if [[ $TERM =~ ^xterm ]];
      > then
      > 	TERM=xterm-256color
    
    Changing the value of TERM is a bad idea, unless you know exactly what
    you are doing.
    
      > 	PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
    
    Using PROMPT_COMMAND is not a good idea, the same thing can be done with
    just setting the prompt.
    ----------
    

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From: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Cc: 
Subject: bug#5255: 23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:44:21 -0300
Message-ID: <9de1a5ef0912201844r45f00f26s82560a57251524d0@mail.gmail.com>

In emacs 23.1 when I use M-x term the prompt is rendered correctly to
whatever is defined on the PS1 environment variable. But in 23.1.90.1 it
prompts whatever is defined in the PS1 but also before that, it prompts
0;<user>@<host>:<location>.

The steps to reproduce it are quite simple:

emacs -Q
M-x term

The prompt is rendered like this:

0;fgallina@cuca:~/Builds/emacs[fgallina@cuca emacs]$

Since my PS1 is set to

PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

the expected result is:

[fgallina@cuca emacs]$

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.5)
 of 2009-12-20 on cuca
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10703901
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x t e r m <return>
<return> l s <return> M-c <backspace> M-x <backspace>
C-c b <return> M-x r e m p o <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 5255-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#5255
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:50:02 -0500
Message-ID: <9utyuqomkl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


This bug was closed recently, but unfortunately the close message was
lost from the Emacs bug database. I am therefore resending the close
message. Sorry for the duplicate mail. The original close message was

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2009-12/msg00689.html

    From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
    Subject: Re: bug#5255: 23.1.90; Wrong prompt in term
    To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
    Cc: 5255-done@debbugs.gnu.org
    Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:28:21 -0800 (PST)
    
    Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com> writes:
    
      > 2009/12/22 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
      > >
      > > This is an xterm specific escape sequence, most likely due to a bad
      > > setup, you'll get the same problem if you use a vt100 terminal for
      > > example.
      > > So this is not a term.el problem.
      > >
      > 
      > Thanks for the explanation, I just added this to my .bashrc and
      > everything started to work fine again:
    
    I am closing this bug, it's not a bug in term.el
    
      > if [[ $TERM =~ ^xterm ]];
      > then
      > 	TERM=xterm-256color
    
    Changing the value of TERM is a bad idea, unless you know exactly what
    you are doing.
    
      > 	PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
    
    Using PROMPT_COMMAND is not a good idea, the same thing can be done with
    just setting the prompt.
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