bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command remotely

bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command remotely

[miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

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If default-directory is a remote directory, shell-command (M-!) executes
the command on the remote machine, but shell-command-on-region (M-|)
executes it locally.

This is more of a feature request rather than a bug report, but it might
be nice if shell-command-on-region executed the command remotely as
well. Or perhaps, a new command called something like
'shell-command-on-region-file' could be added that executed the command
remotely.

Thanks, best regards.

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bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command remotely

[Michael Albinus]

miha--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

Hi,

> If default-directory is a remote directory, shell-command (M-!) executes
> the command on the remote machine, but shell-command-on-region (M-|)
> executes it locally.
>
> This is more of a feature request rather than a bug report, but it might
> be nice if shell-command-on-region executed the command remotely as
> well.

Indeed, shell-command-on-region uses internally call-process-region,
which isn't aware of remote default-directory.

> Or perhaps, a new command called something like
> 'shell-command-on-region-file' could be added that executed the command
> remotely.

For consistency reasons, I prefer that shell-command-on-region behaves
like the other functions of this family, shell and shell-command.

> Thanks, best regards.

Best regards, Michael.

bug#53302: 29.0.50; shell-command-on-region doesn't execute the command remotely

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>> Or perhaps, a new command called something like
>> 'shell-command-on-region-file' could be added that executed the command
>> remotely.
>
> For consistency reasons, I prefer that shell-command-on-region behaves
> like the other functions of this family, shell and shell-command.

And I'd be surprised if shell-command-on-region did anything remotely --
I'm asking Emacs to work on something in the current buffer, which is
different from asking Emacs to execute a command in general (which is
what `M-!' does).

So I think everything here is working as designed, and I'm therefore
closing this bug report.

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