Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
OK, I'll come back to this later on. > 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. "checking whether a command will be executed on a local or a remote host". Stefan pointed already to this inaccuracy of mine. One could argue that just calling `process-file' should be sufficient. But it isn't for packages which still want to support Emacs 21. Supporting `call-processī for commands on remote hosts would result in no change for such packages in the best case. > 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. "handle commands to be executed on a remote host". Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel