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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to know weither a dir is local or remote
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:27:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilkeyel3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82wn8un8h9.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Pascal Quesseveur on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:35:14 +0200)

> From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:35:14 +0200
> 
> >"EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>   EZ> Please show a recipe starting from "emacs -Q" where
>   EZ> file-remote-p doesn't work as advertised.
> 
> emacs 28.1 on Windows:
> 
> (file-remote-p "C:/Users/Public/Applis/appli") -> nil
> (file-truename "C:/Users/Public/Applis/appli") -> //server/applis/appli
> (file-remote-p (file-truename "C:/Users/Public/Applis/appli")) -> nil

These aren't remote file names.  Why did you expect file-remote-p to
return non-nil for a UNC?  A UNC doesn't have to be on a remote
computer.

What is the specific problem for which you needed to distinguish
between a file shared by another computer and a file on a local drive?



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20  6:45 Function to know weither a dir is local or remote Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-20  7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20  7:27 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-20  8:13   ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-20  8:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20  9:35       ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-20 10:27         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-20 12:54           ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-20 16:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21  7:46               ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-21 10:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21 17:00                 ` tomas
2022-10-25 17:01                   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-10-25 17:37                     ` tomas
2022-10-26  6:41                       ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-26  8:25                         ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-26  8:59                           ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-20 17:39             ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-21  7:47               ` Pascal Quesseveur

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