Hi!

At Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:13:29 +0200,
henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> wrote:
> 
> On Sa, Aug 29 2009, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
> >
> >> Is there another way as with tramp to open files as root within emacs?
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> (Since I am sure that tramp and I never will be friends in this life)
> >
> > Partners is all you need.
> 
> Okay, tramp won, I switched from zsh (which impressing functionality I
> don't use anyway) back to bash.
> 
> (I now the appropriate lines which are to add to .zshrc, but this time
> they don't work – another time they did.)

No need to drop zsh, just set a proper regex for
tramp-shell-prompt-pattern. This is what works for me:

  (setq tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "^[^$>\n]*[#$%>] *\\(\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z] *\\)*")

HTH, 

Anselm


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