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Subject: Re: file-remote-p and its arguments
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It's less than an "optimization", it is just a kludge to let grep
>> work also on remote hosts. The decision might be to either complete
>> the implementation, or to throw away this feature.
>
> This one I do not understand: using (file-remote-p file) for this
> purpose would work just as well as (file-remote-p file 'host),
> wouldn't it?

Yes (IIRC, code not checked).

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.