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bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command remotely |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:49:00 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
miha--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
Hi,
> If default-directory is a remote directory, shell-command (M-!) executes
> the command on the remote machine, but shell-command-on-region (M-|)
> executes it locally.
>
> This is more of a feature request rather than a bug report, but it might
> be nice if shell-command-on-region executed the command remotely as
> well.
Indeed, shell-command-on-region uses internally call-process-region,
which isn't aware of remote default-directory.
> Or perhaps, a new command called something like
> 'shell-command-on-region-file' could be added that executed the command
> remotely.
For consistency reasons, I prefer that shell-command-on-region behaves
like the other functions of this family, shell and shell-command.
> Thanks, best regards.
Best regards, Michael.