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Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?
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Ehud Karni |
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Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers? |
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Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:41:53 +0200 |
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:21:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> |> > I'm concerned about shell-command, because it looks like this will
> |> > make all shell commands execute remotely when you are visiting a
> |> > remote file. That is not natural, and not necessarily correct; it
> |> > could cause a painful surprise. It might be ok as a special exception
> |> > feature, if it were documented as one. Currently it isn't.
> |>
> |> Stefan and me have precisely the opposite opinion: we find it natural
> |> to execute the program on the remote host, and unnatural to do it
> |> locally.
>
> It depends, I'd say. If you just want to do a quick shell command, you
> probably want to execute it locally. But if you run the shell command on
> the file associated with the buffer it is surely natural to run it on the
> same host where the file resides. IMHO in most cases you want to run it
> locally, and running remotely should be a special case.
I had this problem with my enhancement to compilations (calling
`compile-internal'). I solved it by letting the user use the prefix
argument (\C-u) to specify a remote compilation.
Ehud.
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- Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/02
- Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/10
- Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/11
- Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/12
- Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/12
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