From: Sean Whitton via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 70792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 17:56:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y18mdglp.fsf@zephyr.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b881f54-4c29-f8d8-d1f7-57b44e7cfc80@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Sun, 5 May 2024 13:58:55 -0700")
Hello,
On Sun 05 May 2024 at 01:58pm -07, Jim Porter wrote:
> One oddity of Eshell is that even when you're connected to a remote host
> (usually you just "cd" into a remote directory using Tramp syntax), absolute
> file names are still on your *local* host when running any Lisp
> commands. However, running *external* commands (programs on the remote host),
> absolute file names are on that remote host.
>
> When you think about how it's implemented, this makes sense: Lisp commands
> always run in the local Emacs process, but external programs run on the
> remote. So naturally, "absolute" file names are relative to a different host
> in either case. This wouldn't be so bad except that it's not always obvious
> when you're running a Lisp command or not. Eshell provides Lisp
> implementations of some common commands, like "cat", but it also transparently
> falls back to the external program if it doesn't understand some option. This
> results in it being pretty hard to tell what's going to happen when you run a
> command.
Isn't this by design? It lets you, e.g, transparently copy a file from
the local to the remote host just with 'cp'.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-06 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-05 20:58 bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection Jim Porter
2024-05-06 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 20:05 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 2:01 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 18:54 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 16:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 18:57 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 18:14 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 19:10 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 20:30 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 22:15 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 22:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-10 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 19:35 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-13 7:39 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-16 2:12 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:17 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-08 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 18:22 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 8:12 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-06 16:56 ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-05-06 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:37 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 8:50 ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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