Re: Tramp with GUD broken on trunk?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Or change comint to always use start-file-process.
> That would be the most simple approach.  But it must be ensured that
> all callers of comint appreciate this behaviour.  There might be cases
> they insist in starting processes on the local host, even if
> default-directory is remote.  Examples might be browse-url, ediff,
> gnus, ispell, jka-compr, ... I haven't checked whether one of them
> uses comint, but you see the point.

A quick run of

  egrep -l 'make-comint|comint-(run|exec)' **/*.el

seems to indicate this is not a problem.  Furthermore, there's already
a flag to turn off the "remote process" feature: "setq default-directory".      


        Stefan