From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, tramp-devel@gnu.org,
raman@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reverting *Locate* buffers.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqlkrals7l.fsf@alcatel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607030251.k632pKhp018621@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:51:20 -0500 (CDT)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Michael Albinus wrote:
>
> 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
>
> I did not think hard about the problem and hence I may not understand
> it, but is I guess that there must be some reason why just saving the
> default directory at the start of tramp, setting it to "/" and setting
> it back to the saved value at the end of tramp does not work?
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.
> Anyway, assuming that the problem really is hard to solve, I propose
> the following patch. The main difference with what you proposed is
> that the default value of `locate-update-path' is "/" and that Tramp
> does not get loaded if `locate-update-path' has that default value.
>
> There are two reasons for this. It makes it easier to revert to the
> old default and that default does not load Tramp (it does not need
> to). Secondly, I would be very hesitant about asking for a root
> password without the user having explicitly asked for that behavior
> (through setting `locate-update-path'). If the user has no authority
> to be root and inadvertently gives his own password at the prompt,
> then mail may be sent to the "appropriate authorities", possibly
> embarrassing the user.
That's OK for me.
> I propose the following patch and if nobody objects, I will install
> it. if the recursive load problem would be solved some other way,
> then obviously, the requiring of Tramp could be undone.
It's really too hot these days. One obvious solution avoiding to
require Tramp explicitely coould be this:
;; From Stephen Eglen <stephen@cns.ed.ac.uk>
(defun locate-update (ignore1 ignore2)
"Revert the *Locate* buffer.
If `locate-update-when-revert' is non-nil, offer to update the
locate database using the shell command in `locate-update-command'."
(let ((str (car locate-history-list)))
(and locate-update-when-revert
(yes-or-no-p "Update locate database (may take a few seconds)? ")
;; `expand-file-name' is used in order to autoload Tramp if
;; necessary. It cannot be loaded when `default-directory'
;; is remote.
(let ((default-directory (expand-file-name locate-update-path)))
(shell-command locate-update-command)))
(locate str)))
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-03 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 3:27 Reverting *Locate* buffers Luc Teirlinck
2006-06-26 7:43 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-28 1:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-06-28 3:55 ` T. V. Raman
2006-06-29 3:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-06-29 6:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-29 21:52 ` Michael Albinus
2006-06-30 1:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-02 20:39 ` Michael Albinus
2006-07-02 20:52 ` Michael Albinus
2006-07-03 2:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-03 13:43 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2006-07-03 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 0:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-03 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-03 15:37 ` Michael Albinus
2006-07-03 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-04 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-06-29 21:58 ` Michael Albinus
2006-06-26 13:15 ` Peter Breton
2006-06-27 1:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
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