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Re: Function to know weither a dir is local or remote


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Function to know weither a dir is local or remote
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:45:48 +0300

> From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:46:47 +0200
> 
> file-remote-p works only when you use a special file name syntax. This
> is not clear from the docstring.

Almost all file-* functions operate just on the syntax.  But feel free
to submit a documentation bug report about clarifying this aspect.

> 
>   EZ> You could perhaps approximate it by assuming that every UNC is a
>   EZ> remote file.
> 
> But as you said every UNC is not a remote file.

Yes.  Thus the "approximate" part.



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