From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tramp question Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:44:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87bp6pou70.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87mxqab2te.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287582287 5898 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 13:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andrea Crotti Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 15:44:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8YyC-0000CT-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:44:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8YyB-0000BC-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42686 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8Yxe-0000Am-2j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8Yxc-00011p-8r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:49538 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8Yxb-00011P-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2010 13:44:05 -0000 Original-Received: from p4FC18BB2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [79.193.139.178] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 20 Oct 2010 15:44:05 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/pByULCIjp32YGZYCNO+VQrma25Tsh/fsj/deU6/ 5anT8vv1xhIg/z In-Reply-To: (Andrea Crotti's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:08:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75173 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti 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.