Re: Find-file at point cannot manage tramp file syntax

[Stéphane Senesi]

Michael Albinus wrote, On 07/08/2012 11:12:
> Stéphane Senesi<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > I investigated further. The problem only appears when the path close
> > to the point is either an absolute path or a path with a tilde ~ :
> >      - using 'emacs -Q', ffap erroneously (?) tries to find the file on
> > the local machine, and hence, for the case of an absolute path,
> > proposes to truncate the file path to the longest one which matches
> > the local file system
> >      
> What happens, if you apply (require 'tramp) before?
>    

The same happens (still with '-Q')
Relative paths are OK
S

>    
> >      - using my settings, I get the behaviour described above
> >
> > When discarding from my settings the "(require 'ange-ftp)" that was
> > intended to allow for :
> >      (setq ange-ftp-skip-msgs (concat ange-ftp-skip-msgs "\\|^500 This
> > security scheme is not implemented"))
> > I am back to the 'emacs -Q' behaviour
> >      
> That makes it clear. ange-ftp.el adds its own file name handler, which
> does not know of the method in the file name syntax. That's why it
> interprets "rsh" as host.
>
>    
> > So, I have only one question left : could/should tramp+ffap interpret
> > absolute and tilde path found at the point of a remote file as remote
> > paths ?
> >      
> Yes. But maybe, you need to require Tramp first ...
>
>    
> > Anyway, thanks for the hint on the method.
> >
> > Stéphane
> >      
> Best regards, Michael.
>
>    


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