From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, 70792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection
Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 20:17:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttj82mo8.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a5l0a195.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 08 May 2024 16:20:38 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
Hi,
>> There's just one open question with this: if I'm on a remote system, how
>> do I type the fully-qualified *local* file name? I propose using "/:" as
>> the prefix to mean "always look on the local host", so "/:/etc/foo.log"
>> is a local file name no matter what. For this case, I'm open to other
>> spellings, so long as we have *some* way to fully-qualify a local file name.
>
> I think "/:" quoting should not change the host of the file name.
> That's because the user might need this quoting for file names on the
> remote host.
>
> If the user wants to specify a local file name while default-directory
> is remote, the user can use the normal Tramp "/METHOD:..." notation.
FTR, we *have* already two different kinds of quoting. "/:<something>"
makes <something> local, whatever syntax it has (for example, Tramp file
name syntax).
"/method:user@host:/:<something>" makes <something> "local" on
"/method:user@host:" whatever syntax it has.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(expand-file-name "/:/ssh::.emacs") => "/:/ssh::.emacs"
(file-truename "/:/ssh::.emacs") => "/:/ssh::.emacs"
(file-remote-p "/:/ssh::.emacs") => nil
(file-local-name "/:/ssh::.emacs") => "/:/ssh::.emacs"
(expand-file-name "/ssh::/:.emacs") => "/ssh:gandalf:/:.emacs"
(file-truename "/ssh::/:.emacs") => "/ssh:gandalf:/:/home/albinus/.emacs"
(file-remote-p "/ssh::/:.emacs") => "/ssh:gandalf:"
(file-local-name "/ssh::/:.emacs") => "/:.emacs"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Best regards, Michael.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-05 20:58 bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection Jim Porter
2024-05-06 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 20:05 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 2:01 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 18:54 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 16:13 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 18:57 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 18:14 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 19:10 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 20:30 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 22:15 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 22:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-10 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 19:35 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-13 7:39 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-16 2:12 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:17 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-05-08 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 18:22 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 8:12 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-06 16:56 ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-06 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:28 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:37 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 8:50 ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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