From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mappeddrive Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:43:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <871w844yff.fsf@gmx.de> <87bq781bf7.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201679005 22521 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2008 07:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, jasonr@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 30 08:43:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JK7bg-0001el-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:43:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JK7bE-0006bX-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JK7bB-0006bS-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JK7b9-0006an-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JK7b9-0006ab-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JK7b0-0004Nm-NP; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de ([194.113.59.96]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JK7ay-00010R-Ou; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from slbhab.alcatel.de (slbhab.bln.sel.alcatel.de [149.204.63.218]) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/ICT) with ESMTP id m0U7gndf018725; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:42:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:15:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (hpux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 149.204.45.73 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87763 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > `file-local-name' might not be a good name. > > The operation `unhandled-file-name-directory' returns a directory that > isn't magic. But remote names are not the only magic names, so > "local" isn't necessarily the right way to describe the relationship > between that directory and the argument. > > I think the same goes for `unhandled-file-name'. > > Perhaps `nonmagic-file-name' would be a better name. As usual, I don't care function names too much. But the mapping (nonmagic-file-name "/sudo::") => "/root" doesn't seem to be obvious, although it would be the implementation for Tramp. Best regards, Michael.