Re: default remote shell in tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Vinh Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear list,

Hi,

> First, my goal is to have access to my PATH that I modify in my
> .bashrc file on remote machines.  However, when I invoke "!" or "&" in
> dired, the commands are not found:
> /bin/sh: MYCOMMAND: not found
>
> I figure this is because bash is not used by tramp even though bash is
> the default login shell on my remote systems.  Why isn't tramp using
> it?  I understand that one way around this is to set the tramp path.
> However, I don't want to go this route since different machines have
> different PATHs.  Is there a way to set tramp to use the remote login
> shell?

Tramp ignores your PATH settings by default. If you want to enable them,
you must add to your .emacs

(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path)

See (info "(tramp) Remote Programs")

This is available since Tramp 2.1.16.

> Thanks.
> Vinh

Best regards, Michael.