From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers? Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:54:25 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84hecebeqm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84isxdpyg5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <200301102352.h0ANqoK01404@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042383274 21823 80.91.224.249 (12 Jan 2003 14:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XjVR-0005fq-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:54:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18XjcT-0003gv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:01:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XjWB-0006GV-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XjVs-0006Dr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XjVo-00066M-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XjVo-00062h-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XjUb-0005dc-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:53:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XjUa-0005dT-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:53:40 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090012 (Oort Gnus v0.12) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AaBDJrzs8IoCTBO3Ma+8PHG99+E= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10696 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10696 Richard Stallman writes: > I'm concerned about shell-command, because it looks like this will > make all shell commands execute remotely when you are visiting a > remote file. That is not natural, and not necessarily correct; it > could cause a painful surprise. It might be ok as a special exception > feature, if it were documented as one. Currently it isn't. Stefan and me have precisely the opposite opinion: we find it natural to execute the program on the remote host, and unnatural to do it locally. I guess the rest of the disagreement follows from this. So what do we do now? -- Ambibibentists unite!