Michael Albinus <[email protected]> writes: > "Patrick Ohly" <[email protected]> writes: >> My expectation was that both methods do remote command execution exactly >> the same way, with feature parity and perhaps even using the same >> code. But apparently that is not the case. > > There is no feature parity. sshfs support for remote processes is > limited. There a no plans to improve it; at least no plans by me.
Thanks for clarifying. In that case, trying to use the sshfs method as replacement for ssh isn't worth pursuing further - fair enough! >>>> All of this works with tramp over ssh. >>> >>> This might come down to what I said earlier about sshfs not being >>> an environment. >> >> What does "environment" mean in this case? Does that refer to how both >> methods are implemented? > > Yes. > > Perhaps you give the tramp-rpc backend a try. It is brand new, still in > alpha version, but acc. to my experience stable. And it has even some > magit-specific optimizations on board. See > <https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc>. That looks very promising, thanks for the pointer. Bye, Patrick
