Subject: Re: bug#14030: 24.3; expand-file-name expands remote file name on Windows incorrectly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:11:32 +0200

> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:17:45 +0100
> From: Vida Gábor <[email-masked]>
> 
> Emacs 24.2 on Windows doesn't expand remote file names:
> 
>   (expand-file-name "/ssh:user@host:/")
>   "/ssh:user@host:/"
> 
> While Emacs 24.3.1 does:
> 
> (expand-file-name "/ssh:user@host:/")
> "/ssh:user@host:c:/"
> 
> And this makes Tramp to fail (it can't find proper ls command, but
> that's a side effect).
> 
> It's probably affects only the Windows build, because cygwin build of
> emacs 24.3.1 doesn't produce the same fault.

As a work-around, byte-compile tramp-sh.el on Windows, and the problem
will disappear.