Re: Patch: new function process-file (call-process with file handlers)

[Kai Grossjohann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Looks good to me, except I'm not sure what INFILE should do.
>
> INFILE is a standard argument to call-process.
> Perhaps the file name handler should be found on INFILE
> instead of on default-directory.

There is already precedent (with shell-command) to choose the handler
based on default-directory.

It's difficult to explain rationally, but to me it just feels wrong to
select the handler based on INFILE.

Kai