Drama with PuTTY, and a small customisation tweak.

Hoo boy what a morning. Anyway, here's what's happened.

The TRAMP terminal kept hanging, despite everything apparently working
okay on my side. I did a bit of checking, and despite everything I did
on TRAMP's side, $TERM kept being set to "xterm".

Okay, I thought... could it be an issue with plink?

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tramp-devel/2003-09/msg00012.html

TL;DR? Yes. And the devs refuse to make the change, because “Windows
apps ignore $TERM anyway”.

Who cares about that, mate? I just want things to work the way they're
supposed to work.

Anyway, solved it by changing /everything/ else, rather than mess with
precious plink. I'm peeved off, and I wonder if there are comparable
tools to access SSH rather than plink. Shit gets old fast.

On happier news, the way the MASB org-file structure handles
custom-variables has been changed to be a little more flexible, and I've
figured out noweb tangling. Yay, learned new thing!

Also, dropped the transparency value from 75 to 85 in friend's
configuration. I love the wallpapers that shine through the page, but
they get a little distracting. Oh well.