"Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> writes:

> The initial hops are no longer shown in the path, nor on the first
> line of dired buffers.  Already I have been VERY confused because
> a bad tramp-default-proxies-alist resulted in no proxy being used for
>
>     /sudo:root@leek:/etc
>
> ...so that instead of editing leek's /etc as root, I was editing my
> laptop's /etc as root!  Since the path claims that I'm on root@leek, I
> would have made disastrous changes to my local system if I hadn't
> noticed that there was no /etc/ssh/sshd_config (because sshd is not
> installed on my laptop).

The appended patch shall fix it. Could you, please, test?

Best regards, Michael.