From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:38:23 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84isxdpyg5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <3E11E7F5.6080609@ihs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041534790 21730 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 19:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UAmD-0005eM-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:13:09 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UAoT-0006qm-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:15:29 +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 18UAPM-0004vl-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UAKZ-0003mo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:44:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UAJ1-0003NX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UAEZ-00026B-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18UAEZ-000434-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:38:23 -0500 Original-To: kevin.rodgers@ihs.com In-reply-to: <3E11E7F5.6080609@ihs.com> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:54:45 -0700) 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:10414 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10414 > 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 I think you're trying to make some sort of point, but you have not stated it clearly.