bug#33006: 27.0.50; `dired-do-find-regexp' doesn't work for remote directories

[Michael Albinus]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Dmitry,

> The patch doesn't look dangerous to me, so you can go ahead and
> install, thank you.

Thanks for reviewing.

> There is, however, a possible inconsistency: it touches
> xref--collect-matches-1, which is used both in xref-collect-matches
> and xref-collect-references. And you only changed the former function.
>
> Could you check that M-x xref-find-references didn't work on remote
> directories before your patch anyway? If it did, though, please make
> sure that it continues to do so.
>
> Bonus points for fixing it, at least when Grep is used (the relevant
> file is lisp/cedet/semantic/symref/grep.el).

It doesn't work, indeed. symref/grep.el isn't aware of remote processes
(it uses call-process, for example). I've fixed this with the appended
additional patch.

Is it OK now to commit?

Best regards, Michael.

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