Re: Difference between shell-command and shell-command-on-region in TRAMP buffer.

[Kai Großjohann]

Francis Litterio <address@hidden> writes:

> If I visit a remote file using TRAMP, and type:
>
>   ESC ESC (shell-command "pwd") RET
>
> I see the output of the "pwd" command executed on the remote host.
> But if I type:
>
>   ESC ESC (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "pwd") RET
>
> the buffer *Shell Command Output* contains the output of the "pwd"
> command executed on the local host.
>
> Is this by design, or is there a bug/omission in TRAMP?

I never thought about it...  Can you investigate in the Emacs sources
what is meant?  I don't know myself what is the right behavior.
Possibly there is a Tramp bug, possibly there is an Emacs bug.

kai
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