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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 68976@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68976: 30.0.50; Tramp: unexpected error when calling (file-remote-p "/dav:localhost#8000:/foo")
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:40:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fry4qlcj.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zfwcxmp0.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> (file-remote-p "/dav:localhost#8000:/foo")
> ...> 
>> I believe that it is inappropriate that throw an error in such
>> situation. If "gvfs" is not supported, but still claimed to be remote by
>> TRAMP, I expect non-nil return value when calling `file-remote-p'; not
>> an error.
>
> What if the "dav:" part was deliberate, i.e. not an accident?  That
> ism the caller did want to access a gvfs remote filesystem.  Returning
> nil in that case would be exactly the wrong thing to do.

I do not suggest returning nil. I suggest to return non-nil rather than
throwing an error. It would be more appropriate to throw an error when
opening the file were attempted, not merely checking if that file is
remote.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-07 16:08 bug#68976: 30.0.50; Tramp: unexpected error when calling (file-remote-p "/dav:localhost#8000:/foo") Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-07 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-07 16:40   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-02-07 16:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-07 17:59 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-07 19:07   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-08 10:25     ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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