From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reverting *Locate* buffers. Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:41:46 +0200 Message-ID: <858xnaofut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200606260327.k5Q3Rfpd013691@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <853bdsmkey.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200606280158.k5S1wJCu004606@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <17569.64920.191861.355581@localhost.localdomain> <200606290313.k5T3DwTj002620@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <873bdjwwzu.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151941383 13427 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2006 15:43:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, rms@gnu.org, tramp-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, pbreton@cs.umb.edu, raman@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 17:42:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxQZV-0004mR-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxQZU-0003K6-P8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxQZH-0003JH-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxQZG-0003Il-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxQZG-0003Ie-Oh; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:42:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxQmk-0006yK-Cw; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FxQZ9-0001ft-3m; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 437121C4D3B9; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:41:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Michael Albinus In-Reply-To: (Michael Albinus's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:37:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56428 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> The solution would be to set temporarily default-directory to "/" or >> whatover local during loading of Tramp. But I have no idea how to say >> it, >> >> Does >> >> (let ((default-directory "/")) >> (require 'tramp)) >> >> do the job? > > Of course. But this would be given to the _consumers_ of Tramp, > contradicting the concept of autoload. And sometimes they shouldn't > even know that Tramp is required. Maybe `autoload' should locally bind default-directory to some default value. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum