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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Message #63 received at 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#18891: Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:50:13 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:44:44 -0500
> Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Don't blame me, the design seems to be older than my liaison with Emacs
> > (ange-ftp.el is copyrighted since 1989; I've started with Emacs in
> > autumn 1990, IIRC).
> 
> I guess Tramp could check if there's matching local dir and pass the
> request through untouched if there is.

If Tramp did that, how would the user tell Tramp that it should access
the remote host, even though there is a matching local file?  (The
converse situation can be handled with /: quoting.)
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 193 days ago.

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