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: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:42:30 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84isxdpyg5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <844r8fmkvv.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042454580 15221 80.91.224.249 (13 Jan 2003 10:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:43:00 +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 18Y23X-0003xE-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:42:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Y2Ay-0006iM-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:50:40 +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 18Y24Z-0006Cz-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y23o-0005eR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y23d-00057w-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y235-0004E3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Y234-0005XO-00; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 05:42:30 -0500 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de In-reply-to: <844r8fmkvv.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de) 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:10705 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10705 But in the end, it's not a big problem: just implement another function that's just like call-process, except that it invokes a filename handler based on default-directory. And then, various pieces of Lisp can be converted from the existing call-process to the new function ;-) That's a much better approach. That way, various Lisp programs can support this remote behavior when it does the right thing for them.