Subject: bug#5447: closed by Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#5447: 23.1.91; load-file fails for C:/the-file.el.gz)

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:37:24 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Michael, how hard would it be to special-case "\`[a-z]:/" on Windows so
> that matching files are never considered to be ``remote files''?

IIRC, there was the case that "/method:host:" was expanded to
"C:/method:host:" by I-dont-know-which-package. Exactly because of this
problem we have the `tramp-drop-volume-letter' function.

I acknowledge, that it is an error which shall be fixed where it
happens, and not in Tramp. But not easy to hunt, especially for a guy
like me who doesn't work under w32.

Best regards, Michael.