Re: shell-command-on-region with TRAMP - local binary

[Ian Eure]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Terrence Brannon wrote:

> i want to run HTML Tidy using a binary on my local machine ... the
> problem is the buffer I want to run it on is being edited via TRAMP
> ssh on a remote machine. So the shell-command-on-region uses ssh to
> run the command.
>
> How can I run shell-command-on-region on a remote buffer using a local
> binary?

M-: (let ((default-directory "/")) (call-interactively 'shell-command- 
on-region)) RET

If you never want to use shell-command-on-region with remote  
processes, you can define around-advice for that function. Otherwise,  
I think you'll need another function that sets default-directory to a  
local path.

 - Ian