Improving tramp's "user messages" (was: tramp (2.0.12); Strange error message; no password prompt)

[lawrence mitchell]

Kai Grossjohann wrote:

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>> tramp: Looking for Are you sure you want to continue connecting
>> (yes/no)\?

> Whee.  How can I solve this problem?  The message means that Tramp is
> waiting for stuff from the remote end, and it looks to see whether
> that stuff contains a specific pattern which happens to look like a
> question.

> It does NOT mean that Tramp is asking the user a question, it just
> looks for a question mark in the remote shell prompt (say).

> Do you have some idea how to make it more obvious?

I suppose you could enclose it in quotes:

Tramp; Looking for: "foo bar (yes/no)?" from remote shell.

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