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23.1.91; load-file fails for C:/the-file.el.gz

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 5447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5447: closed by Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#5447:
	23.1.91; load-file fails for C:/the-file.el.gz)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:41:21 -0500

>> The interesting thing is that jka-compr-load is not even called if
>> the file is not in the root directory of a drive.  I will try to
>> look into that now.
> This is actually trivial: a file that is not in C:/ is not considered
> a remote file by Tramp handlers.  Case closed.
> Like Lennart, I think that considering X:/ files on Windows to be
> remote is a bad idea.  If it didn't have any serious consequences, I'd
> just shrug.  But the recent bug reports indicate that it does have
> very serious consequences, and is quite an annoyance.
> Can we please get rid of that misfeature?

I generally agree, but I'd like to see a concrete patch for it first.


        Stefan

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