Subject: bug#8964: 24.0.50; `find-file' triggers the debugger when called with a nonexistent remote file

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:51:33 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 1. Eval this, literally: (find-file "/user@host:/file")
>> 2. Give any random password (for user@host).

For me, this fails, too, but by hanging until I `C-g'.

If I look in the "*ftp user...*" buffer, I then find:

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ftp> open host
ftp: host: Name or service not knownftp> 
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Which sounds like a totally unrelated issue.  :-)

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