Re: tramp and executable-find

[yyoncho]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for clarification. By remote path, you mean tramp-remote-path, right?

Thanks,

Ivan

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:16 AM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

yyoncho <yyoncho@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Ivan,

> As a side note, if you do search for /bin/ls executable-find will work
> although it is not prefixed with the remote identifier. This is what
> confused me initially.

Everything you do with a COMMAND being an absolute file name will return
not specified results. It might work, or not. Don't trust on this.

> This is a configuration setting for lsp-mode when the server is
> located on the remote server. Some users dont have admin access on the
> remote machine so they put the binary somewhere else so they have you
> use full path.

They don't have to. They shall add that directory to the remote path, and
they can still use the program name.

> Thanks,
> Ivan

Best regards, Michael.