From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to know weither a dir is local or remote
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:37:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1gexVTagcdGAEW2@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmt9j4z6l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 01:01:14PM -0400, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de [2022-10-21 19:00:56] wrote:
> >> file-remote-p works only when you use a special file name syntax. This
> >> is not clear from the docstring.
> > I think it's not about the syntax per se, but about whether Emacs handles
> > the remoteness itself or it is the operating system's job.
>
> There's also the question of it means to be "remote".
> Is a file accessed via /su:... remote?
> What about a file accessed via NFS to a virtual machine running on the
> same physical machine?
Definitely. The closer you look at it the more elusive the thing
becomes :)
For the OP, I think the takeaway is that file-remote-p can only be
about remoteness Emacs "knows about", i.e. where Emacs handles the
protocol "bringing over" the file. So no NFS, no CIFS etc.
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 17:37 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
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 [this message]
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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