Configuring non standard port?

[ghost]

How do I go about configuring a non standard ssh port, or have tramp-term read ~/.ssh/config?

[randymorris]

Configuring the port in ~/.ssh/config should work fine. All tramp-term does is call "ssh host" so if running that from the command line directly works with the custom port then tramp-term should work. I'll test when I can get to a computer.

[randymorris]

I just confirmed this by adding the following to my ~/.ssh/config:

host test
    hostname myhost
    user myuser
    port 5046

Then ensured an ssh daemon was running on myhost on port 5046. I ran M-x tramp-term and entered test when prompted and it connected as expected.

[ghost]

Thank you. For some reason my .ssh/config was not readable (symlinked from dotfiles repo). Now I'm able to login (also for a passowrd-less login, as expected), though I'm seeing some errors:

user@somehostname:~$ function set-eterm-dir {
>     echo -e "\033AnSiTu" "$USER"
>     echo -e "\033AnSiTc" "$PWD"
>     echo -e "\033AnSiTh" "somehostname"
>     history -a
> }
user@somehostname:~$ PROMPT_COMMAND=set-eterm-dir
user@somehostname:~$ clear
'eterm-color': unknown terminal type.

Under ~/.terminfo/e I have

--- ~ » ls ~/.terminfo/e 
README         eterm-color    eterm-color.ti

[randymorris]

The terminfo files need to exist on the remote machine for that to work. The only time I've had that problem was when emacs wasn't installed on the remote. I worked around it by adding the hook function that allowed me to just use TERM=xterm. I'm not sure what repercussions that has but I never had an issue. Here's an example:

(add-hook 'tramp-term-after-initialized-hook
          (lambda (host)
            (cond ((equal host "testhost")
                   (term-send-raw-string (concat "export TERM=xterm; clear" (kbd "RET")))))))

[ghost]

of course, silly me :(