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Re: partial-completion-mode and tramp.
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: partial-completion-mode and tramp. |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:05:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Actually, now that I think about it, I believe this is not a problem any
>>> more in Emacs-CVS because `substitute-in-file-name' now ignores the $ which
>>> do not correspond to a valid envvar.
>
>> Well, but Tramps supports older Emacsen as well. So we should apply
>> this defadvice for those versions only?
>
> Yes, you can test:
>
> (condition-case nil
> (substitute-in-file-name "C$/")
> (error
> ...add the advice...))
>
> writing it this way is also a good way to document why the advice is used.
> Documentation in the form of code has the advantage over comments that it
> doesn't have the same tendency to go stale.
Done.
> Stefan
Thanx for all your suggestions, and best regards, Michael.