From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tramp,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reverting *Locate* buffers. Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:21:18 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <200607030251.k632pKhp018621@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151969092 6929 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2006 23:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, tramp-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, raman@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 01:24:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: tramp@deer.gmane.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxXmW-0001FW-Nv for tramp@deer.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FxXmW-0002oI-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxXmV-0000LN-Ip for tramp@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxXjE-0007UB-44 for tramp-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxXjD-0007TL-Ap for tramp-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxXjD-0007TG-5N; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxXwl-0006JJ-B4; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FxXjC-0000J2-5X; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:21:18 -0400 Original-To: Michael Albinus In-reply-to: (message from Michael Albinus on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:43:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: tramp-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: tramp-devel.gnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Errors-To: tramp-devel-bounces+tramp=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:5050 gmane.emacs.devel:56453 Archived-At: The problem is that default directory must not be a remote filename when (auto)loading tramp.el. Any counter measure "at the start of tramp" (i.e. inside tramp.el) is too late. The value of default-directory does not normally affect the loading of a file. How does it affect the loading of tramp.el? Maybe you can change that (whatever it is) not to look at default-directory any more.