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bug#5447: closed by Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> (Re: bug#5447: 23.1.9
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#5447: closed by Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> (Re: bug#5447: 23.1.91; load-file fails for C:/the-file.el.gz) |
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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:41:21 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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