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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:54:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84hecebeqm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E18XgiU-0004LZ-00@fencepost.gnu.org

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.  I guess the rest of the disagreement follows from this.

So what do we do now?
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-12 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-28 22:31 Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers? Kai Großjohann
2002-12-31  5:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-31 18:54   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-02 18:38     ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-10 23:52   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-11 21:33     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-13 10:42       ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-12 11:55     ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-12 14:54       ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-13 10:21         ` Andreas Schwab
2003-01-13 11:41           ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-14 18:54             ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-14 22:42               ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-15 23:28                 ` Richard Stallman

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