I haven't been struggling with this issue for some months now. I can't remember
exactly what I did, but I think the key was this tramp-own-remote-path option:
```
'(tramp-remote-path
'(tramp-own-remote-path tramp-default-remote-path "/bin" "/usr/bin"
"/sbin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin"
"/usr/local/sbin" "/local/bin"
"/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin"
"/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin"
"/usr/contrib/bin" "/opt/bin" "/opt/sbin"
"/opt/local/bin" "/opt/homebrew/bin"
"/opt/homebrew/sbin"
"/run/current-system/profile/bin"))
```
--
Christopher Howard
