From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers? Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:54:45 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E11E7F5.6080609@ihs.com> References: <84isxdpyg5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041361338 31782 80.91.224.249 (31 Dec 2002 19:02:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TReb-0008GN-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:02:17 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18TRfs-000519-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:03:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18TRek-00067u-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18TReG-0005n4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18TRdY-0004HS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:01:17 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18TRdT-00045D-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TRcd-00089t-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:00:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TRWQ-0007rA-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:53:50 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10389 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10389 Richard Stallman wrote: [without attributing the following to its author] > I think it would be good to change call-process to check for a > filename handler, based on the value of default-directory. > > It doesn't make sense to run any particular handler for call-process > generally. What you would want the handler to do, and whether it > makes sense to run one, is specific to a particular program. So this > change is the wrong way to solve the problem. M-} M-x replace-string RET call-process RET find-file RET M-{ M-x replace-string RET program RET file RET C-c C-c -- Kevin Rodgers