From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New functions remote-exec-path and remote-executable-find Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:19:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87po0oi0qa.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529371093 2439 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2018 01:18:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 01:18:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 03:18:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5Hd-0000Y7-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 03:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5Jk-0003t7-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5Ja-0003sr-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5JU-0005DN-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50111 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5JU-0005Ci-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fV5HK-00008U-93 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2018 03:17:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:le7Sj0XAEEHnIVLLrhgn6i8aTPY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226483 Archived-At: > these days I'm working on bug#31704. The point is, that for searching of > programs, always `exec-path' (a list of local directories) is taken, > even if the shell runs on a remote host. Therefore, I propose a new > function `remote-exec-path'. In case of a remote `default-directory', > the function returns a list of directories which belong to that > host. Implemented via file name handlers. For a local > `default-directory', `exec-path' is returned. I think we could even name it just `exec-path`. IIRC they'd be built by examining the $PATH of the remote shell, right? But I wonder: wouldn't there also be a need sometimes to *modify* these (remote) exec-paths? Stefan