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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GuixSD and TRAMP
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:52:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wph42bp3.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y41k2d4o.fsf@dustycloud.org>

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

> Hello!
>
> I've been trying to access a remote GuixSD server I have running using
> TRAMP in emacs.  I figured out that in order for path resolution to
> work I had to install perl in my remote user's path somehow.  So, that's
> done.
>
> I can open up directories in dired, but when I try to open an individual
> file, I get:
>
>   Tramp: Inserting ‘/ssh:kari:/home/cwebber/.emacs’...failed
>   Wrong method specification for ‘ssh’
>
> I see I'm not the only one!  ecraven reports the same here:
>   https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2016-06-10#T1053360
>
> Does anyone know how to resolve this?
> Thanks!
>  - Chris

Ho-ho, it turns out the snippet Ludo pasted me on IRC was the answer
after all:

  ;; Make sure we work on remote guixsd machines :)
  ;; probably only helps if you start on a guixsd machine..!
  (setq tramp-remote-path
        (append tramp-remote-path
                '(tramp-own-remote-path)))

There ya go!

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 22:21 GuixSD and TRAMP Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-19 22:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-10-20 21:00   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-20 22:55     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-21 12:27     ` Alex Kost
2016-10-24 19:24       ` myglc2
2016-10-25 14:51         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-25 16:45           ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-25  8:16       ` Ludovic Courtès

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