Re: Reverting *Locate* buffers.

[Richard Stallman]

    The problem is that default directory must not be a remote filename
    when (auto)loading tramp.el. Any counter measure "at the start of
    tramp" (i.e. inside tramp.el) is too late.

The value of default-directory does not normally affect the loading of
a file.  How does it affect the loading of tramp.el?

Maybe you can change that (whatever it is) not to look at
default-directory any more.