Re: Tramp patch for emacs-24 branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:05:58 +0200
> 
> Last days, I have worked on a fix for a nasty Tramp problem: it loads
> itself recursively, when default-directory is already a remote file
> name.

And why is that a problem?  Does the second load cause any trouble?

> There is no related bug report; I've been pointed to this on #emacs of 
> irc.freenode.net.

Did they say what did this cause them, apart of the extra loading.

> I believe I've fixed this, including a respective test in tramp-tests.el
> for checks. But I'm wondering, whether the patch shall go into the
> emacs-24 branch. It changes the autoload behaviour of Tramp, and cannot
> be regarded as simple. And I believe the problem doesn't happen with
> "normal" use of Emacs (whatever this is :-)
> 
> Comments? To be applied in emacs-24 or trunk?

I'd say it depends on how grave the problem is, see my questions above.