Re: local emacsclient to remote emacs server

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> Anyway, I think your best bet now is TRAMP. You can do a lot of things
> in TRAMP including running remote commands.

Yes, this is another possible route, and FWIW once you figure out appropriate 
settings for TRAMP and your remote it mostly works. However, my need is 
complicated some by the remote environment I envision. So, here goes.

Are there any Emacs TRAMP users connecting to Guix machine here? My use case is 
this. I would like to be able to use said remote machine for all my dev work. 
Of course the selling point of Guix is that you can setup reproducible and 
minimal execution environments for your code and hacking - think Virtualenv 
pushed to its logical conclusion. So, typically I'd do the following:

1. mkdir myproj
2. drop a manifest.scm or guix.scm script inside that has input packages and 
sets up services, possibly entire OS definition in system.scm
3. spawn this programmed environment `guix shell -D -f guix.scm` or inside a 
container `guix shell -c` or if I really need to be close to production or run 
services spawn entire OS in a container `guix system -c system.scm`
4. start Emacs inside that environment

Now, do you see the problem with TRAMP? TRAMP is essentially an SSH session 
spawned from local Emacs already running. It ends up talking to your login 
shell over ssh basically. But we need this Guix induced or potentially even 
containerized environment. There needs to be some kind of "hop" or additional 
step after TRAMP establishes an ssh connection that puts its shell in 
appropriate environment. Is there a way to do that?