It does. The relevant snippet from my .emacs.d: ;; For tramp with my bash config, the prompt of which terminates ;; in a newline. Tell tramp how to detect

It does. The relevant snippet from my .emacs.d: ;; For tramp with my bash config, the prompt of which terminates ;; in a newline. Tell tramp how to detect the end of my prompt. (setq shell-prompt-pattern " ") The value of the shell-prompt-var is a literal newline. (That newline entered, naturally, with a C-q C-j.)