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I have the following function defined in my dot-Emacs:

(defun call-shell-refresh-browser ()
  ;; When pressing 'sf', save the content and refresh the browser
  (interactive)
    (save-buffer)
    (shell-command "python ~/Dropbox/Sys/Linux/chrome-refresh-back-emacs.py")))

It saves the buffer in Emacs, then switching to Chrome, reload the webpage and gets back to Emacs. This worked like a charm.

Until now, I use TRAMP to edit files on a remote machine. When I save it, and call the function call-shell-refresh-browser, it looks in the remote shell for the script chrome-refresh-back-emacs.py which don't exists on the remote machine.

How could I tell Emacs/Tramp to switch to the local shell on my machine, when editing a remote file? This is without terminating the current TRAMP session.

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You must change default-directory to be a local file name. Like this:

(let ((default-directory temporary-file-directory))
  (shell-command "python ~/Dropbox/Sys/Linux/chrome-refresh-back-emacs.py"))
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  • Thanks for your help! Will let you know if it turned out to be working tommorow!
    – ReneFroger
    Feb 22, 2016 at 20:28
  • it worked right out of the box! Thanks for that, it's appreciated!
    – ReneFroger
    Feb 23, 2016 at 23:03

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