Re: tramp and how to source remote environment

[Michael Albinus]

ramestica@gmail.com writes:

> On Mar 3, 11:36 am, Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Tramp has the variable tramp-remote-path. You can add there your
>> preferred paths, like
>>
>> (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/my/path" 'append)
>
> this is not convenient because different machines have different
> paths. The logic for setting up those paths (based on the machine
> name) is part of my remote bash_profile. Repeating that logic in my
> local emacs configuration its simply not good.

That's right. Tramp is not designed for that case. Maybe I shall
extend it this way ...

>> Maybe the following works (not tested):
>>
>> (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "${PATH}")
>
> This does not work because in tramp-get-remote-path the function delq
> removes "${PATH}" from remote-path.

I don't understand. Do you mean this line:

(setq remote-path (delq 'tramp-default-remote-path remote-path)))

This deletes the *symbol* `tramp-default-remote-path', and nothing else.

> Rodrigo

Best regards, Michael.