Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mappeddrive

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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.
>> 
>> Actually, this implementation would be incorrect for my purpose
>> (doc-view): the important aspect of unhandled-file-name is that
>> a subprocess will be able to use it.  So it should be accessible by the
>> normal Emacs user.

> I don't think that nonmagic-file-name is supposed to deal with
> permissions.  If it were, it would be pretty pointless since most tramp
> file names would differ in some way in the permissions.

I don't see the problem: Tramp should simply always return nil.
That's fine.  The code (doc-view) will than fallback on the use of
file-local-copy to pass the file's content to the local process.


        Stefan