From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: executable-find in files.el Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <01c55657$Blat.v2.4$7979dc20@zahav.net.il> <87fywt6128.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ekc9lurh.fsf@gmx.de> <87k6lzots5.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116387832 5344 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 03:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 03:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 05:43:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYFSj-000857-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:43:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYFV5-0000v2-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DY73D-0003WC-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DY73B-0003VX-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXtrE-0002Yz-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DXtxF-0006sX-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DXtpC-0003Nw-4y; Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:58 -0400 Original-To: Michael Albinus In-reply-to: <87k6lzots5.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Mon, 16 May 2005 21:27:54 +0200) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37220 Sorry for being too short. I wanted to say that there should be a general concept for running commands on remote hosts. I would not say that it is a priority for Emacs to have such a thing. I think it would be a difficult thing to do. However, if you design one and the design is good, I would be glad to accept it. Not now, however. It should wait for after the release. Everywhere there is the need of checking a command for being remote or not, and then to call `process-file' or `call-process'. I don't understand "checking a command for being remote or not". I have no idea what this is talking about. If `call-process' would be able to handle remote commands, I cannot envision any way in which that could make sense. I have no idea what it would mean for `call-process' to "handle" remote commands.