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Re: Tramp and rcompile
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Tramp and rcompile |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:04:10 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> The `rcompile' code calls a Tramp macro via `funcall'.
>> Obviously, this can't work. This code was introduced by Michael Albinus
>> <address@hidden> back in 2006, so I presume that the macro was
>> a function back then (or he had had too much fun the previous night).
> Likely the latter one, I don't remember. But it looks like I've tested
> only the not byte-compiled version ...
Going through an explicit `funcall' should ensure that it will fail even
if you don't byte-compile the file.
>> I'm tempted to just throw out most of that code since M-x compile should
>> work at least as well for that purpose nowadays.
> I second this. I have had always a bad feeling, using Tramp *internal*
> functions somewhere else.
OK, so I'll remove the obviously broken code (it will still use an
internal Tramp function, tho).
I also suggest we move rcompile.el to the `obsolete' directory.
Stefan