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Re: autoreverting remote files
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: autoreverting remote files |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:23:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>>> However, there are use cases where it might be acceptable to handle
>>> remote files, too. For example, watching a log file via
>>> `auto-revert-tail-mode', which can be accessed as root only.
>>
>> If it's accessed via Tramp over su/sudo, then one could argue that the
>> file is not remote.
> Sure. But `file-remote-p' does not know the difference.
Not true: file-remote-p delegates the job to Tramp, and Tramp does know.
Stefan