GNU bug report logs - #18891
Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 24.5

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#18891: Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:36:50 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> if a directory name happens to match a tramp pattern, as "/C:"
>> presumably does, how about first checking if a local directory literally
>> named that exists, before invoking a remote handler?
>
> That's probably something Emacs should do _before_ invoking the
> handler, no?  I mean, the decision whether to let the handler do this
> job is outside the scope of the handler.

That's what I meant, I think...
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