From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding with-editor to Emacs? Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:59:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85msy98sni.fsf@elpa.gnu.org> <87r0nidkmt.fsf@bernoul.li> <83bkelc1p1.fsf@gnu.org> <87fs3xwzxm.fsf@bernoul.li> <837cp9bur7.fsf@gnu.org> <87zg23tjby.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83ledn6zj4.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8crt7d4.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83v8cr5a81.fsf@gnu.org> <87msy2tklg.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28545"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, jonas@bernoul.li, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Manuel Giraud Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 02:59:43 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgtS-0007DU-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:59:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgtO-0000Zu-5I; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgtI-0000Ki-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgtG-0008RP-MN; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:59:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=83y9XilSYOTefcAnHRFRCTvjSAJgSXsL6hnH9pPRGh8=; b=HdvQqmT0ojAi IMI0vlc7+6R00VqnlzDcWyHmFu8oBu0DbOazGVQnHvsHPYhbZoVFSnAnToaB61Iu3DSzGbhf/FskR Yim/zExkBn45o59phiRjSV6NNipWbNhek1bxkotvmHRFjZPm4knj+nWAw0fuZcmshLXUudTV5TLaQ NwKBhYdHQRLxqQNMhf2rJRAGhKZv6EJ2NKRn97Q0YMk+ONmxoqEQU6Ymtin3tg75G1fsjmxoJMhWI tE0zJBywSdNbdP5MXCmxvmTob0xWX32GoeePYX7kY4Ef0oY6Nmi1Y6+/yXq7wmK3rgfQMsBZ3JXIY gIKJWFwBHTa+x4SVVnwlnQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdgtG-0003bz-Ej; Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:59:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87msy2tklg.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:21:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310163 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Ok, I might be lost also (as I said I'm not an expert of everything > with-editor does). I'll try to rephrase. with-editor is able to > correctly set EDITOR to have any shell command that need editing appear > into an Emacs buffer locally. Such command might be over a ssh session > or into a sudo for instance. Now I understand the idea -- but that _name_ does not explain it well. How about renaming it to something easier to understand. Maybe with-editor-envvar-to-edit-cmd-in-emacs? Perhaps it could be a little shorter tan that, but at least that one will be clear. If I haven't misunderstood the meaning myself;-{ -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)