Re: Remote process attributes

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If both functions are used somewhere else in the future, the
>> documentation tells what to do. And I could imagine that this
>> information about remote processes could be used not only in proced.
>
> Using Proced is what I had in mind.  AFAIU, if Proced is invoked with
> default-directory being on a remote host, it will show remote
> processes after your changes.  I'm asking whether users will indeed
> expect that.

Agreed, local processes shall be the default, whatever default-directory is.

>> What we could think about is a way to indicate proced whether to return
>> local or possibly remote process information. I wanted to add a prefix
>> argument to proced in order to trigger remote process information, but
>> this is already used for window selection.
>
> We could use a special value of the argument to work around this.

Hmm, perhaps "C-u -" (aka "M--") would serve?

Best regards, Michael.