Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Could someone please summarize what was done about this?
>> Nothing.

Actually, this is not quite right: nothing came out of the part of the
discussion Drew referred to, but the other part (the one I cared about)
did result in a refined docstring for file-remote-p.

> Is WNetGetConnection useful for this? (There is already code calling this
> function in Emacs.)

I have no idea.  But note that you may have mapped drives that are quite
"local" in the file-remote-p sense.


        Stefan