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Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string |
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Fri, 09 May 2008 11:39:41 +0200 |
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Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> No, but saying a file name handler will be called based on
>> default-directory without telling what the file name handler is actually
>> supposed to be processing is not much use I think. The command? The
>> command line arguments? The executable?
>
> _The_ file name handler, which belongs to `default-directory', will be
> applied.
To what will it be applied?
> Currently, there ought to be only one implementation of such a file
> name handler, `tramp-handle-start-file-process'. _This_ file name
> handler runs the command on the corresponding remote host.
So what the file name handler will be employed for is executing the
program on potentially remote host. This information is _absent_ from
the DOC string, and it shouldn't. In contrast, what a file name handler
_is_, is best left to the info documentation.
--
David Kastrup
- Uncomprehensible DOC string, David Kastrup, 2008/05/07
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, Michael Albinus, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, David Kastrup, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, Michael Albinus, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, David Kastrup, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, Michael Albinus, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, Michael Albinus, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, David Kastrup, 2008/05/09
- Re: Uncomprehensible DOC string, Michael Albinus, 2008/05/09