Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have suggested a remedy once before, and the end result was that
>> RMS suggested to create a new filename handler called
>> `process-file'. Then Tramp can implement this file operation, too,
>> and then `compile-internal' can be rewritten to use the function
>> `process-file', and then `M-x compile RET' will work for remote
>> files automagically. (Modulo some frobbing of default-directory,
>> perhaps.) Alas, I haven't been able to make much progress, here. I
>> know what to do, but I haven't done it.
>> (And finding all the places where start-process or call-process
>> should be replaced with process-file is a big job.)
"Stefan Monnier" 06 Mar 2001 15:15:53 -0500
> Last we talked about it, my argument about `start-process' not being
> fundamentally different from `shell-command' was rather well
> received, which leads me to believe that it might be possible to
> convince the maintainers that making `start-process' (and
> `call-process') file-operations is all that's needed.
Just wondering (impatiently :-): how hard should this be to do?
I guess what I'd really like to know is the relevant timeframe for its
accomplishment: is it internet-time or geologic time ?-)
TIA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
