Klugey solution for TRAMP problems

The whole story for that is here:

https://github.com/tariqk/emacs24-starter-kit/commit/e1380fd105423e380936905f8b7f6417fcea0ba4

TL;DR it's not TRAMP's problem, it's plink. If you use xterm now I
assume you're plink and treat you accordingly.

Consider using something else other than plink on Windows.