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

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 18891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18891: Doesn't handle pwd = /C: very well
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:47:19 -0500

Michael Albinus wrote:

>    "/C:" as default directory is wrong. It triggers Tramp to start,
>    which fails. Maybe one could prevent this problem by giving the
>    default directory the prefix "/:".

You know much more about this than I do, but my dumb idea was:
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?
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