Re: Tramp and VC integration: "calling user"

[Michael Albinus]

Andre Spiegel <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:14 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> Am I right in believing that this is a problem specific to vc-rcs.el?
>
> I know of no other occurences, and I'd be happy to localize changes into
> vc-rcs.el as much as possible.  Michael Albinus has stated, however (on
> tramp-devel), that "such a function is on my wishlist for a while, not
> only because of vc."  He didn't give any more details, so I'll put him
> in copy and ask him to let us know why he would like something like
> "file-calling-user", except for the use in vc-rcs.el.

I don't remember the concrete case when I've missed such a
function. Likely it was when I've worked on tramp-minor-mode,
integrating Tramp with other packages like "compile.el".

Best regards, Michael.