Re: local emacsclient to remote emacs server

[t@fullmeta.me]

> Anyway, I think your best bet now is TRAMP. You can do a lot of things
> in TRAMP including running remote commands.

Yes, this is another possible route, and FWIW once you figure out appropriate settings for TRAMP and your remote it mostly works. However, my need is complicated some by the remote environment I envision. So, here goes.

Are there any Emacs TRAMP users connecting to Guix machine here? My use case is this. I would like to be able to use said remote machine for all my dev work. Of course the selling point of Guix is that you can setup reproducible and minimal execution environments for your code and hacking - think Virtualenv pushed to its logical conclusion. So, typically I'd do the following:

1. mkdir myproj
2. drop a manifest.scm or guix.scm script inside that has input packages and sets up services, possibly entire OS definition in system.scm
3. spawn this programmed environment `guix shell -D -f guix.scm` or inside a container `guix shell -c` or if I really need to be close to production or run services spawn entire OS in a container `guix system -c system.scm`
4. start Emacs inside that environment

Now, do you see the problem with TRAMP? TRAMP is essentially an SSH session spawned from local Emacs already running. It ends up talking to your login shell over ssh basically. But we need this Guix induced or potentially even containerized environment. There needs to be some kind of "hop" or additional step after TRAMP establishes an ssh connection that puts its shell in appropriate environment. Is there a way to do that?