Re: the real file-attributes function

[Peter S Galbraith]

Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> 
wrote:

> Fiddling with those attributes will just break ange-ftp.
> You're better off disabling it rather than breaking it.
> Take a look at file-name-handlers-alist and remove the ange-ftp
> entries there.

So that's how you disable ange-ftp!  It ought to have a defcustom for
that...

I _never_ use it, and I'm always annoyed the first time I try to open
a file, press tab after / in the prompt, and emacs loads ange-ftp.

Peter