Re: tramp (2.7.0-pre master/27944247d161f0ed65bbb34959c4493f7984987a); Error in remote grep-find from Windows host

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Richard,

> Recipe starting from 'emacs -Q', on Windows assuming a PuTTy session
> called "session" is configured:
>
> C-x C-f /plink:session:/tmp RET
> M-x grep-find RET
> x RET
>
> This occurs because 'null-device' is let-bound to nil in 'grep-find',
> and this is not handled by the regex constructor in
> tramp-sh-handle-expand-file-name (only used on Windows). Evaluating
> the following form gives the same error:
>
> (let ((null-device nil))
>   (rx bol (| (: alpha ":") (: (literal null-device) eol))))

Thanks for the report and the analysis! Could you pls check, whether the
appended patch fixes this?

Best regards, Michael.

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