From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Kotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23865: 24.5; doc string of `tramp-remote-path' Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:36:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bacc3e4ad27db05365c9914 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467146317 31151 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2016 20:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23865@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 22:38:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bHzm1-0006rv-VY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHzlw-0008WT-75 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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charset=UTF-8 There is another special symbol `tramp-own-remote-path` that can be added to `tramp-remote-path`. Both of the special symbols show up in customize. The docstring should definitely mention both. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Drew Adams wrote: > (Note: I don't use this. I just tried to understand it while looking at > it for someone else. Perhaps if I used it things would be clearer.) > > The doc string says that the value is a list of directories. But the > default value is a list of directories, but including the symbol > `tramp-default-remote-path' as the head of the list. That symbol > doesn't look like a directory. How is a user to understand this? > > > In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) > of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 > Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 > Configured using: > `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32' > > > > -- Thanks, Jonathan Kotta Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. --047d7bacc3e4ad27db05365c9914 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
There is another special symbol `tramp-own-remote-path` th= at can be added to `tramp-remote-path`.=C2=A0 Both of the special symbols s= how up in customize.=C2=A0 The docstring should definitely mention both.

On Tue, Jun 28= , 2016 at 3:30 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wr= ote:
(Note: I don't use this.=C2=A0 I= just tried to understand it while looking at
it for someone else.=C2=A0 Perhaps if I used it things would be clearer.)
The doc string says that the value is a list of directories.=C2=A0 But the<= br> default value is a list of directories, but including the symbol
`tramp-default-remote-path' as the head of the list.=C2=A0 That symbol<= br> doesn't look like a directory.=C2=A0 How is a user to understand this?<= br>

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
=C2=A0of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
=C2=A0`configure --prefix=3D/c/usr --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32'






--
Th= anks,

Jonathan Kotta

Hofstadter's Law:
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 I= t always takes longer than you expect, even
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 when you take = into account Hofstadter's Law.
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