From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: executable-find in files.el
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:19:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DYGyG-0003TJ-GX@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umzqtn780.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 17 May 2005 18:32:47 +0200)
One could argue that just calling `process-file' should be
sufficient. But it isn't for packages which still want to support
Emacs 21.
Backwards-compatibility is nice, but it is not the most important
thing.
> If `call-process' would be able to handle remote
> commands,
>
> I cannot envision any way in which that could make sense. I have no
> idea what it would mean for `call-process' to "handle" remote
> commands.
"handle commands to be executed on a remote host".
What call-process does is run a program with given arguments.
How would it run this program on a remote host?
Perhaps using ssh. But if you want to use ssh, you can do that now.
You can invoke ssh to run a command on a remote host.
So what really is the new feature that you want?
I don't follow the idea.
WHat would that mean? How in the world can call-process
run the pro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-18 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1DVuFh-0001h1-GE@monty-python.gnu.org>
2005-05-11 18:29 ` executable-find in files.el Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-11 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 22:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-11 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 23:50 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-12 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-12 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-12 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-12 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-14 14:58 ` Michael Albinus
2005-05-15 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-16 19:27 ` Michael Albinus
2005-05-16 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-17 22:03 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-05-17 22:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-18 13:08 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 16:32 ` Michael Albinus
2005-05-18 5:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-05-18 13:08 ` Richard Stallman
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