Re: how to troubleshoot a slow connection?

[Michael Albinus]

Rodrigo Amestica <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Rodrigo,

>> Likely, it contains the entry "Private Directories" (in lisp, this is
>> the entry `tramp-own-remote-path'). You could remove that,
>> this are the directories from your local $PATH variable.
>> 
>
> but as we discussed here 
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-03/msg00540.html
>
> the only setting I explicitly do is this
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path)

This adds your own $PATH to Tramp's search list.

> It seems to me that if I remove it then I will loose the functionality of 
> having
> my remote environment in place.
>
> Yes, just tried removing tramp-own-remote-path and loosing my remote 
> environment
> is exactly what it happens.
>
> It is still puzzling to me why to 'test -d'-ing for local directories in the
> remote host.

Tramp wants to know whether the respective directories do exist. If it
searches for a program later on, it goes through this list of
directories until it has found a proper one.

> Thanks,
>  Rodrigo

Best regards, Michael.