GNU bug report logs - #18515
Document call-process behaviour with respect to default-directory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 25.2

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #21 received at 18515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: eli <at> barzilay.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 18515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18515: 24.3; Documentation of `call-process'
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:54:29 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:41:48 -0400
> Cc: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>, 18515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> retitle 18515 Document call-process behaviour with respect to default-directory
> quit
> 
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> +The process runs in `default-directory'.
> >
> > That's not true if `default-directory' is remote.
> 
> Aha, good point.  This is an important thing to document.

I think at least the manual should say that the default-directory
alluded to here is that of the buffer which is current when the
respective functions are called.
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