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29.0.50; [PATCH] Should 'comint-term-environment' be connection-aware?

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: 51426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#51426: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Should 'comint-term-environment' be connection-aware?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:26:31 -0700

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On 10/28/2021 9:48 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> What I'm curious about is whether we shall give more guidance using this
> feature. The majority of the users don't know connection-local
> variables, your example from the initial message might be instructive
> for them.
> 
> WDYT?

Sure, that seems like a good idea. I expanded the example in the section 
on "Per-Connection Local Variables" to show setting 
`system-uses-terminfo'. Hopefully this will point people in the right 
direction, and make it more apparent that 
`connection-local-set-profiles' lets you set multiple profiles for a 
connection, not just one. (That's documented in the Emacs Lisp manual, 
but I think it would be helpful to show it in the Emacs manual as well.)

Perhaps it would make sense to mention this in the Tramp manual too, 
such as under the section "Running shell on a remote host". On the other 
hand, setting `system-uses-terminfo' connection-locally only applies to 
Emacs 29+, so it might make that section more confusing to include it 
there. People might expect it to work on older versions of Emacs as well.

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