From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 30419@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30419: tramp-sh-process-file: effect of tramp-remote-process-environment vs non-top level value of process-environment
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:28:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876073bnye.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877erjj298.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:37:23 +0100")
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Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> `tramp-remote-process-environment' is still in play. The let-bound
> environment variables from `process-environment' are taken additionally,
> and afterwards. So they would have precedence.
>
> See bug#18940. The major reasoning is, that other packages do not want
> to preload Tramp in order to set `tramp-remote-process-environment',
> even if Tramp isn't used ever.
Thanks, I propose the following patch to the manual to clarify this:
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From 9cafeec6027947e28e3f54ffc7f975a4845227de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:20:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v1] Clarify TRAMP process-environment interaction (Bug#30419)
* doc/misc/tramp.texi (Remote processes): Index the
tramp-remote-process-environment description. Clarify the effects of
let-binding process-environment and the motivation for that behavior.
---
doc/misc/tramp.texi | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/tramp.texi b/doc/misc/tramp.texi
index 25ae8ae3e8..4723547419 100644
--- a/doc/misc/tramp.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/tramp.texi
@@ -2596,6 +2596,7 @@ Remote processes
@end group
@end lisp
+@vindex tramp-remote-process-environment
Customize user option @option{tramp-remote-process-environment} to
suit the remote program's environment for the remote host.
@option{tramp-remote-process-environment} is a list of strings
@@ -2641,11 +2642,13 @@ Remote processes
@end group
@end lisp
-@value{tramp} does not use the defaults specified in
-@code{process-environment} for running @code{process-file} or
-@code{start-file-process} on remote hosts. When values from
-@code{process-environment} are needed for remote processes, then set
-them as follows:
+In addition to @option{tramp-remote-process-environment}, you can set
+environment variables for invidivual remote process calls by
+let-binding @code{process-environment}. @value{tramp} will apply any
+entries which are not present in the global default value of
+@code{process-environment} (overriding
+@option{tramp-remote-process-environment} settings, if they conflict).
+For example:
@lisp
@group
@@ -2654,8 +2657,10 @@ Remote processes
@end group
@end lisp
-This works only for environment variables not already set in the
-@code{process-environment}.
+Let-binding in this way works regardless of whether the process to be
+called is local or remote, since @value{tramp} would add just the
+@code{HGPLAIN} setting and local processes would take whole value of
+@code{process-environment} along with the new value of @code{HGPLAIN}.
For integrating other Emacs packages so @value{tramp} can execute
remotely, please file a bug report. @xref{Bug Reports}.
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2.11.0
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2018-02-11 2:11 bug#30419: tramp-sh-process-file: effect of tramp-remote-process-environment vs non-top level value of process-environment Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 9:37 ` Michael Albinus
2018-02-11 14:28 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-02-12 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2018-02-13 0:28 ` Noam Postavsky
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