From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:43:32 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097336685 3253 80.91.229.6 (9 Oct 2004 15:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 17:44:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CGJOj-0002Xp-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGJVa-0007Wf-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGJUn-0006qi-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGJUm-0006pv-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGJUm-0006pX-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CGJNc-0000BB-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CGJNc-0000fp-2K; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:43:32 -0400 Original-To: Dave Love In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:13:26 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28129 Apart from the variable needing to be customizable, I think "ssh" is a better default these days. (I wanted to use ssh.) It puzzles me that most of the definitions in paths.el are defconst's. It seems that they should all be defcustom.