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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7055@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7055: Tramp bug: file-remote-p is now broken,	breaks Emacs
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqeics5qi6.fsf@alcatel-lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Drew Adams's message of "Fri\, 17 Sep 2010 07\:13\:51 -0700"

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Actually, this Tramp bug prevents me from being able to use Emacs at all 
> - the
> error pops up all of the time.
>
> emacs -Q
>
> In *scratch*, call file-remote-p with a remote file name (can be a 
> fictitious
> file):
>
> (file-remote-p "/foo-2.foo.com:/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/README")
>
> You get this error:
>
>   "Symbol's function definition is void: tramp-compat-call-process)"

Under GNU/Linux, it is not reproducible. I will try to hijack a Windows
machine, in order to reproduce.

In the meantime, does it help to evaluate first (require 'tramp) in the
scratch buffer?

> Note: For some reason "SimonTatham" seems to be hard-coded here. Never 
> heard of
> him.

He's the author of PuTTY. He uses his (own) name for storing values in
the Windows registry.

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-17 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-17 14:13 bug#7055: Tramp bug: file-remote-p is now broken, breaks Emacs generally Drew Adams
2010-09-17 15:38 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2010-09-17 15:59   ` bug#7055: Tramp bug: file-remote-p is now broken, breaks Emacs Drew Adams
2010-09-17 16:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-17 16:52     ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 16:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-26  0:17 ` bug#7055: Tramp bug: file-remote-p is now broken, breaks Emacs generally Juanma Barranquero

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