Re: Some operations fail in XEmacs

[Michael Albinus]

Pete Forman <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote on 2009-12-24:
>
>   > Pete Forman  wrote on 2009-12-24:
>>
>>> One issue that is outstanding is that some remote commands are
>>> failing as the pathname is being handled as if it were local. These
>>> include M-x grep and chmod (M in dired).  I've tested with a plain
>>> plink on xemacs -q.
>>
>   > I fear that there might be problems with XEmacs. process-file and
>   > start-file-process, used in GNU Emacs for runing processes on a
>   > remote host, do not exist in XEmacs (yet). There are emulations in
>   > tramp-util.el, but I haven't tested them for a long time in XEmacs.
>
> I still have these problems with some remote operations on tramp 2.1.18,
> XEmacs 21.5b29, native on XP SP3.

I've committed a patch to the Tramp repository, which shall reenable
this feature for XEmacs. Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 with

"XEmacs 21.4 (patch 22) \"Instant Classic\" [Lucid] (x86_64-linux-gnu, Mule) of 
Tue Jul 14 2009 on yellow"

Could you, please, check?

Best regards, Michael.