Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 55ec674: * lisp/multifile.el: New file, extracted from etags.el

[Michael Albinus]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dmitry,

> Unfortunately, it uses call-process-region which has no Tramp
> counterpart. I'm really tempted to leave solving that problem up to
> Michael, either but adding a proper public counterpart (like a file
> file-process-region, with a Tramp handler), or by encapsulating the
> choice of whether to use call-process-region or a temporary file, in a
> private function. Neither seems too hard to do, though.

Thanks for moving the ball to me :-)

I believe we don't need a new file name handler function here. Writing a
new function process-file-region, which uses process-file internally,
should be sufficient. No Tramp expertise needed :-)

Best regards, Michael.