Seems so. I guess with the way Elisp works it is even correct, because (as
I understand) Elisp has no way to notice that process has died if there are
no IO calls between `shell-process' and `set-process-*'. But it does feel
dirty. (Also that `(sit-for 1)'  a few lines above feels dirty.)

Paul

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 12:35, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Tested also with `emacs -Q', so this is not a problem of my
> configuration.
> >
> > 1. Open (a slow) remote connection, with TRAMP
> > 2. Run M-x find-dired RET, arguments not important
> > 3. Internal error "Wrong type: processp, nil" appears
> >
> > Debugging suggests that it happens in `find-dired-with-command' when
> calling
> > `set-process-filter'. Apparently the asynchronously started shell
> command started ~
> > 30 lines above counts as having finished (?) by then.
>
> The proper fix here would be to have a way to specify the
> filter/sentinel in `shell-command', since that's the only way to really
> guarantee that we'll be getting the output here.
>
> But some testing seems to indicate that just moving the settings up
> until right after the `shell-command' makes things work, so I've now
> made that trivial fix in Emacs 29.  Does this fix this issue for you,
> too?
>
>
>