Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> writes:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>
> Hi Arsen,
>
>> Based on observations during the last 24h I've noticed that many Emacs
>> functions do, in fact, reset f-n-h-a to nil.  I'm yet to spot the
>> combination of calls that leaves epa-file not added back in.
>
> No package in Emacs should reset file-name-handler-alist to nil. If you
> find such code anywhere, please report an error.
>
> What is possible is to let-bind file-name-handler-alist to nil.

This is effectively equivalent to being reset to nil for library
functions such as auth-source-search (which calls
auth-source-pass--read-entry eventually), as this is global state that
applies for called functions, no matter how deep down the call stack.

>> Thanks, have a lovely day!
>>
>> Arsen Arsenović
>
> Best regards, Michael.


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