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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp question
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:44:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp6pou70.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zku9z0xk.fsf@gmail.com> (Andrea Crotti's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:08:23 +0200")

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> Well maybe since "shell-command-to-string" is used non interactively it
> doesn't make sense for it to be so smart, since I should know what I'm
> doing.
>
> Might it be this the reason of this difference?

No, I don't believe that's the reason.

Anyway, I've checked the Emacs tree, and there are several dozen places
where `shell-command-to-string' is called. I fear we cannot simply
redefine its behaviour.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19 14:13 Tramp question Andrea Crotti
2010-10-19 15:49 ` Michael Albinus
2010-10-20  9:08   ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-20 13:44     ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2010-10-20 18:59       ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-21  3:04         ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]     ` <mailman.0.1287582252.26344.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-20 16:43       ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-10 22:46 tramp question Michael W. Daniels
     [not found] ` <nq8yljn3sw.fsf@alcatel.de>
2003-12-14  2:15   ` Michael W. Daniels
2003-12-16 23:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-17  0:42   ` Thomas F. Burdick
2003-12-17 21:05     ` Kai Grossjohann

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