Re: tramp and how to source remote environment

[Michael Albinus]

ramestica@gmail.com writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Rodrigo,

> reading the manual does not seem to help me. Looking into tramp.el the
> problem (my problem) seems to be that tramp does not respect whatever
> my PATH is set to during the login process (in my case
> within .bash_profile).
>
> Perhaps there is in the lisp code of tramp-get-remote-path (used by
> tramp-set-remote-path to actually set the path) something that I'm not
> understanding. Too much lisp there for me.

Tramp has the variable tramp-remote-path. You can add there your
preferred paths, like

(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/my/path" 'append)

> On the other hand, if in tramp-set-remote-path I replace
>
> "PATH=%s; export PATH"
>
> by
>
> "PATH=${PATH}:%s; export PATH"
>
> then things start to work the way I want it! My PATH (crafted within
> my .bash_profile) is now preserved and now I can actually compile.

Maybe the following works (not tested):

(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "${PATH}")

> thanks,
>  Rodrigo

Best regards, Michael.