Subject: Re: bug#53644: 29.0.50; xref-search-program breaks if programm not installed on a remote host

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:59:13 +0100

Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Philip,

> +                            (with-connection-local-variables
> +                             xref-search-program)
> +                          xref-search-program)))
>
> xref--process-file-region takes shell-file-name, that should depend on
> the remote system.  I could use something like
>
>    (with-parsed-tramp-file-name default-directory d
>      (tramp-get-method-parameter d 'tramp-remote-shell))
>
> but it seems that `with-parsed-tramp-file-name' is not used outside of
> tramp, and byte-compiling triggers a warning.  Is there some better way
> to do this?

`shell-file-name' is already handled as connection-local variable, so
you could apply `with-connection-local-variables shell-file-name' as well.