bug#12643: 24.2.50; TRAMP and ps-spool functions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.10.2012 um 11:47 schrieb Andreas Schwab:

> What is so special about this buffer that it wouldn't make sense to
> store it somewhere remote?

Well, it's meant to be printed. This, I think, cannot yet be performed on the 
remote system. So it's connected to the local system. I can't see any sense on 
saving that spool buffer on the remote system. If I would want to distribute it 
via FTP I would upload it accordingly. And then I certainly would need to use 
an account that is not anonymous…

> 
>>  Why is TRAMP behaving differently?
> 
> This is a very useful feature of TRAMP, because it makes it convenient
> to refer to other directories on the remote host.
> 
>> Can this deviating behaviour be customised?
> 
> If you want to refer to a local directory you only need to type an extra
> slash before the local file name.


OK, a bit more work needed! Whenever a TRAMP related buffer has the focus, GNU 
Emacs is in TRAMP mode and I have to break out of it by using the extra slash.

So no bug at all?

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