Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mappeddrive

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

    >> GetDriveType can be called from C.  Emacs already uses it in
    >> w32.c, but only to determine which drives are fixed, thus their
    >> information can be cached indefinitely.

    Drew> Good.  Do you agree that it would be good for either
    Drew> `file-remote-p' or some new function to take mapped network
    Drew> drives into account for remote files?

_I_ sure wish it did.  I like using global-auto-revert-mode, but that
can make Emacs hang when it checks a remote file.  And since
file-remote-p doesn't give the right answer ...

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