Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mappeddrive

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> `file-local-name' might not be a good name.
>
> The operation `unhandled-file-name-directory' returns a directory that
> isn't magic.  But remote names are not the only magic names, so
> "local" isn't necessarily the right way to describe the relationship
> between that directory and the argument.
>
> I think the same goes for `unhandled-file-name'.
>
> Perhaps `nonmagic-file-name' would be a better name.

As usual, I don't care function names too much. But the mapping

  (nonmagic-file-name "/sudo::") => "/root"

doesn't seem to be obvious, although it would be the implementation
for Tramp.

Best regards, Michael.