From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 72849@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eugene.dev@lipklim.org
Subject: bug#72849: [PATCH] Keep project's exec-path during with-temp-buffer call
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:12:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzg1p1cz.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7zlo8yy.fsf@lipklim.org> (Evgenii Klimov via's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:13:25 +0100")
Evgenii Klimov via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
Hi Evgenii,
> I see that this function tries to be remote-host friendly (uses
> `process-file') so I tried to ensure that this patch doesn't break this
> effort, but I'm not sure that I understand the machinery behind TRAMP
> correctly. So please consider this aspect from your side.
>
> This patch shouldn't interfere with TRAMP, if I understand
> `process-file`s doc correctly:
>
> If a file name handler is invoked, it determines the program to run
> based on the first argument PROGRAM. For instance, suppose that a
> handler for remote files is invoked. Then the path that is used
> for searching for the program might be different from ‘exec-path’.
Correct. Remote processes do not use the variable exec-path, so you can
change it at will, w/o breaking remote processes. Of course, exec-path
should still ensure that local programs, needed for accessing a remote
host (like ssh), shall still be usable.
Best regards, Michael.
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2024-08-27 23:13 bug#72849: [PATCH] Keep project's exec-path during with-temp-buffer call Evgenii Klimov via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-28 7:12 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-08-28 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-29 16:08 ` kobarity
2024-08-29 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-29 22:51 ` Evgenii Klimov via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-30 14:43 ` kobarity
2024-08-31 10:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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