From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: executable-find in files.el Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:32:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <01c55657$Blat.v2.4$7979dc20@zahav.net.il> <87fywt6128.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ekc9lurh.fsf@gmx.de> <87k6lzots5.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116402647 9277 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 07:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 09:50:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYJIz-0005Nj-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 09:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYJLN-0001NF-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 03:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYAdr-0007yg-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYAdo-0007x0-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYAdn-0007wW-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DY5Xh-000522-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 13:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 May 2005 16:32:55 -0000 Original-Received: from pD9E70CBC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO ERNA.local) [217.231.12.188] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 17 May 2005 18:32:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37238 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37238 Richard Stallman writes: > Sorry for being too short. I wanted to say that there should be a > general concept for running commands on remote hosts. > > I would not say that it is a priority for Emacs to have such a thing. > I think it would be a difficult thing to do. However, if you design > one and the design is good, I would be glad to accept it. > > Not now, however. It should wait for after the release. OK, I'll come back to this later on. > Everywhere there is the need of checking a command for > being remote or not, and then to call `process-file' or > `call-process'. > > I don't understand "checking a command for being remote or not". > I have no idea what this is talking about. "checking whether a command will be executed on a local or a remote host". Stefan pointed already to this inaccuracy of mine. One could argue that just calling `process-file' should be sufficient. But it isn't for packages which still want to support Emacs 21. Supporting `call-processī for commands on remote hosts would result in no change for such packages in the best case. > 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". Best regards, Michael.