Re: URL + efs confusion

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Although I'm not quite sure what the right fix here is.  The `url-file'
> function is talking about ange-ftp and efs and has a lot of (featurep
> 'xemacs) (by the way, is it OK to remove xemacs-related stuff from the
> Emacs version of url?  Or is it maintained outside of Emacs, too?) and
> stuff...  but here's the backtrace when I get prompted for my password:
>
>   tramp-file-name-handler(file-directory-p "/c:/thing/foo")
>   file-directory-p("/c:/thing/foo")
>   url-file-build-filename([cl-struct-url "file" nil nil nil 21
> "/c:/thing/foo" nil nil nil nil])
>   url-file([cl-struct-url "file" nil nil nil 21 "/c:/thing/foo" nil
> nil nil nil] ignore (nil))
>   url-retrieve-internal("file:/c:/thing/foo" ignore (nil) nil)

With Emacs 24.0.50 (since July) and 23.2.50 (since August) it shouldn't
happen anymore. On w32 systems, `tramp-file-name-regexp' has the value
"\\`/\\([^[/:]\\{2,\\}\\|[^/]\\{2,\\}]\\):". Note the "\\{2,\\}"
construct, which excludes volume letters.

Best regards, Michael.