Thanks, Michael! I guess I didn't expect that a function with a predicate
name would do something like that. :-)


On 16 April 2014 17:11, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

> Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com> writes:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> Hi Bozhidar,
>
> > I wonder what's the authoritative way to obtain the local file name
> > portion
> > of a remote file name? I’m looking for a function that would turn
> > "/ssh:root@192.168.1.1:/some/path/file" into "/some/path/file".
>
> (file-remote-p "/ssh:root@192.168.1.1:/some/path/file" 'localname)
>
> > I know of `tramp-dissect-file-name', but I wonder if there's a better
> > way, that doesn’t involve requiring tramp.
>
> Internally, it could use Tramp, but you don't need to require it.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>