Re: INSIDE_EMACS and Tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> The problem with your approach is that it means calling `start-process`
>>> from within a Tramp directory could launch a process with INSIDE_EMACS
>>> that contains ",tramp" even tho the process is running locally.
>>
>> No, Tramp adds the following code snippet to inside-emacs-functions:
>>
>>   (when (file-remote-p default-directory) "tramp:2.5.0-pre"))
>>
>> The substring about Tramp appears only when it is needed.
>
> No: `start-process` doesn't look at `default-directory` so the above
> code snippet will add ",tramp" when the default-directory is remote, but
> the process will still be launched locally.

You're right.

>> This gives me another idea: Tramp could adapt INSIDE_EMACS as provided
>> by the packages via process-environment. Hmm, so simple - I should have
>> thought about earlier.
>
> Isn't that what my suggestion does?

Likely. Meanwhile, I've pushed a respective change to master.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.