Subject: Re: bug#16045: 24.3.50; rgrep can't work

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:55:59 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  zijianyue <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:10:26 +0100
> 
> Hard for Tramp. It gets a long string as argument of
> `start-file-process-shell-command', which looks like the example in
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/8233/focus=8244>. How shall
> Tramp parse it?

Why should it parse it?  Isn't \n\ removed on the remote end before
the shell there interprets it?

> Where does it know from, how long a command line in the remote shell
> could be?

How do you know that in grep.el?