bug#33791: 26.1; Eshell on Windows connecting to GNU/Linux machine using TRAMP and plink: env: ‘c:/home/jordan/test.sh’: No such file or directory

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> Right you are, thanks.  The problem is that locate-file doesn't
> support remote file names.  Does the patch below produce good results?
>
> Michael, do you agree with this solution?  Do you think it's safe
> enough to put it on the release branch (it's a regression from a few
> years ago)?

Please give me some days, I hope to work on this over the next days. I
know you are busy with Emacs 26.2; if it cannot wait just go on with
your fix.

Btw, what about supporting locate-file by file name handlers? Just an
idea, and it wouldn't work in Emacs 26.

Best regards, Michael.