Emacs eshell over SSH not obeying key commands or elisp

Posted by Brad Wright on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Brad Wright
Published on 2012-03-20T10:26:35Z Indexed on 2012/03/20 11:32 UTC
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When SSHing to a remote server Eshell doesn't behave very well, e.g:

M-x eshell
ssh server
<tab> *inserts literal tab instead of trying to complete*

Hitting <tab>, for instance, inserts a literal tab. Is there no way to get tab completion, lisp interaction (like find-file blah) etc. over SSH? All the documentation I've read says Eshell is "TRAMP-aware", which I assume meant it could deal with this.

Am I just wrong in my assumption that it would work over SSH, or is something broken?

This is on Emacs 24.0.94 pretest.

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