Re: [RFC] Explicity-remote commands in Eshell

[Jim Porter]

On 3/6/2023 12:09 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> One remark: Why don't you allow remoteness everywhere? Sth like
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /ssh:user@somewhere:remote-command | 
> /ssh:another-user@elsewhere:another-remote-command
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This even with multiple pipes in a row. Mixed with local commands. And
> using just the shorter version "command", which means a local or remote
> command according to default-directory.

This is possible too: in fact, explicitly-remote commands should be 
usable absolutely anywhere a regular command is: in pipelines, 
subshells, conditionals, etc. (My example was just to show how you might 
mix an explicitly-remote command with a regular command.)