Re: Buffer-local process environments

[Michael Albinus]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

>> Because there's a lot of functions out there, which work for the local
>> host, and should work also for remote hosts. See for example
>> vc-git-grep, which has
>>
>> (let ((default-directory dir)
>>       (compilation-environment (cons "PAGER=" compilation-environment)))
>>
>> compilation-environment will be propagated to process-environment later
>> on. And the setting for PAGER is needed for both local and remote
>> instances of vc-git-grep. There's no special code in vc-git-grep for the
>> remote case.
>
> In fact, if one launches Emacs via `PAGER= emacs', then Tramp will stop
> setting PAGER on the remote as desired.  (Well, it won't, because PAGER
> is in `tramp-remote-process-environment', but you see my point.)

Sure. But reality is, that a lot of packages are written w/o any care of
Tramp. People call remote processes w/o any care of such
environment. They simply expect that Tramp works (and bash me otherwise :-)

Best regards, Michael.