From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to know weither a dir is local or remote Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:01:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <825ygfngbw.fsf@gmail.com> <821qr2oqu2.fsf@gmail.com> <83k04uyiou.fsf@gnu.org> <82wn8un8h9.fsf@gmail.com> <83ilkeyel3.fsf@gnu.org> <82sfjimz8v.fsf@gmail.com> <834jvyxygn.fsf@gnu.org> <82o7u5r53s.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17300"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:opdEmeDRyWzRkx0mqGkV/C9C8fM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 19:06:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1onNO7-0004Fz-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:06:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onNJ3-00067f-2X; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onNIt-0005fe-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onNIr-0005XB-76 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1onNIo-0006QW-Ck for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:01:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140375 Archived-At: 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? Stefan