Re: Make call-process (and start-process?) filename handlers?

[Ehud Karni]

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:21:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> |> > I'm concerned about shell-command, because it looks like this will
> |> > make all shell commands execute remotely when you are visiting a
> |> > remote file.  That is not natural, and not necessarily correct; it
> |> > could cause a painful surprise.  It might be ok as a special exception
> |> > feature, if it were documented as one.  Currently it isn't.
> |> 
> |> Stefan and me have precisely the opposite opinion: we find it natural
> |> to execute the program on the remote host, and unnatural to do it
> |> locally.
> 
> It depends, I'd say.  If you just want to do a quick shell command, you
> probably want to execute it locally.  But if you run the shell command on
> the file associated with the buffer it is surely natural to run it on the
> same host where the file resides.  IMHO in most cases you want to run it
> locally, and running remotely should be a special case.

I had this problem with my enhancement to compilations (calling
`compile-internal'). I solved it by letting the user use the prefix
argument (\C-u) to specify a remote compilation.

Ehud.


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