Re: executable-find in files.el

[Richard Stallman]

    Sorry for being too short. I wanted to say that there should be a
    general concept for running commands on remote hosts.

I would not say that it is a priority for Emacs to have such a thing.
I think it would be a difficult thing to do.  However, if you design
one and the design is good, I would be glad to accept it.

Not now, however.  It should wait for after the release.

    Everywhere there is the need of checking a command for
    being remote or not, and then to call `process-file' or
    `call-process'.

I don't understand "checking a command for being remote or not".
I have no idea what this is talking about.

    If `call-process' would be able to handle remote
    commands,

I cannot envision any way in which that could make sense.  I have no
idea what it would mean for `call-process' to "handle" remote
commands.