Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:10:11 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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>     >     And, of course, when you invoke a program locally, there's usually 
> no
>     >     protocol at all involved.
>     > 
>     > Likewise, we need to look at some real cases.
> 
>     Not sure what you mean by that.  M-! and M-| is what I had in mind.
> 
> This may be a big miscommunication.  I think the people who want
> strict encoding are talking about network communication using
> open-network-stream.

That distinction is quite blurred in latest Emacs versions.  E.g.,
shell-command-to-string might call a process on a remote host and
communicate with it via open-network-stream or some such.  There are
several interactive commands already that use this feature.