zsh, tramp and projectile

Dear all, using doomemacs on NixOS I have trouble getting tramp to work nicely through zsh with projectile/magit/etc. I have read [this](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode#h5o-9) section of the emacs wiki about zsh but none of the options given there make zsh work with tramp. Currently I have: if [ $TERM = "tramp" ]; then unset RPROMPT unset RPS1 PS1="$ " unsetopt zle unsetopt rcs # Inhibit loading of further config files return fi So I have to resort to `sshx` which works but then magit fails to find git, projectile can not initialize project caches and many other unpleasant things. I have tried the following settings in various combinations to no avail: (setq projectile-file-exists-remote-cache-expire nil) (setq projectile-enable-caching t) (add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path) (setq-default projectile-indexing-method 'alien) (setq tramp-connection-properties '(("/sshx:server:" "remote-shell" "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") ("/sshx:host:" "remote-shell" "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") ("/ssh:server:" "remote-shell" "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") ("/ssh:host:" "remote-shell" "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") ("/ssh:user@host:" "remote-shell" "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") ("/sshfs:" "direct-async-process" t))) (customize-set-variable 'tramp-encoding-shell "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh") (setq tramp-terminal-type "tramp") Any ideas what else I could try?

Pretty sure the documentation is telling you to check for term equals dumb not tramp. Edit:nvm, noticed you change the defaults

Can you describe what "work nicely" means? Do you have any functionality at all? Reduced functionality? Any specific error messages?

sshx connection works fine but there projectile does not initialize correctly, i.e. it does not build a cache, there is no error it just aborts building the cache after a second or so. Also emacs can not find the git executable for magit. I would like to use ssh with zsh and be able to use projectile and magit.

sshx runs something like this: `ssh -t -t -l <user> -o RemoteCommand='/bin/sh -i' <host>` So it uses /bin/sh, meaning you need to make sure your path is set in `~/.profile`. You can run this SSH command yourself to make sure it's working. Regarding ZSH, I recently set up the same thing and was making a dumb mistake in my config. I figured this out by manually SSHing with `TERM=dumb ssh <host>`. I'd recommend you try that and make sure that works. If you're still having issues, set `tramp-verbose` to 6 and see what's going on in the logs.

You may be interested in the `tramp-remote-path` variable. Using nixos myself as a tramp destination and this works (but, alas, you need to change my homedir out): ``` (setq tramp-remote-path ‘(tramp-own-remote-path “/run/wrappers/bin” “/home/asf/.nix-profile/bin” “/etc/profiles/per-user/asf/bin” “/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin” “/run/current-system/sw/bin”)) (add-to-list ‘tramp-remote-path ‘tramp-own-remote-path) (dolist (p ‘(“/run/wrappers/bin” “/home/asf/.nix-profile/bin” “/etc/profiles/per-user/asf/bin” “/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin” “/run/current-system/sw/bin”)) (add-to-list ‘tramp-remote-path p)) ``` Edit: forgot to mention `(setq enable-remote-dir-locals t)` which is also great if you do anything direnv-related.

Thanks for the replies, in the end I just set `(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path)` and using sshx everything works now (git, projectile, ...). I guess there is no point in using zsh for this anyways.