Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.)

[Stefan Monnier]

> cygwin-mount, for one.

Hmm... I know it has limitations, but I haven't heard of problems with
it linked to issues such as cygwin file names being confused as remote
file names.

>> AFAIK jka-compr.el works fine.
> Because it takes great care not to touch anything that changes the
> semantics of file names: the file name still behaves the same with and
> without jka-compr.  By contrast, AFAIU environments cannot do that by
> their very nature.

I think environments implemented via file-name-handlers-alist would only
affect process-file, start-file-process, and maybe a couple more
functions, and wouldn't otherwise "change the semantics of file names"
any more than jka-compr.


        Stefan