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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: