Re: tramp (2.0.25); multihop broken for me.

[Tim Connors]

On 14 Oct 2002, Michael Albinus wrote:

> Tim Connors <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So I installed the CVS version of tramp a week or so ago. I just tried
> > to load a multihop file, and it failed with "Not a tramp file name:
> > /[multi/ssh:address@hidden/ssh:address@hidden/home/tconnors/journal/J020925.1html"
>
> According to the provided backtrace, tramp-dissect-file-name has a
> problem parsing multi-hop filenames with XEmacs syntax. In the GNU
> Emacs case it tolerates the filename.
>
> Could you, please, try the following patch? I have no XEmacs at hand
> just now (I will have tonight, at home). If OK, I'll commit the patch
> to CVS. Kai is very busy these days.

Hmmm, doesn't work. I just learnt how to use the emacs lisp debugger
(yay!), and stepped through the code. I am as yet unsure what (nth) is
meant to do, (it seems to return "C-b" perhaps for the method match), and
don't yet know the difference to (string-match) and (match-string), so
can't exactly help debugging this one, but what I see happening is you are
trying to get method from a tramp-file-name-structure, when you should
perhaps be getting it from tramp-multi-file-name-structure. There is no
match for either match or method, so the (if (and method..... test fails
because method is set to nil.


The values I have for tramp-file-name-structure (set by the default
debian scripts - are these wrong?) and
tramp-multi-file-name-structure are
^/\[\(\([a-zA-Z_0-9-]+\)/\)?\(\([^:@/   ]*\)@\)?\([a-zA-Z0-9_.#-]*\)\]\(.*$\)
(method = 2, user=4, host=5, file=6)
^/\[\(\([a-zA-Z_0-9-]+\)\)?\(\(/%s\)+\)?\]\(.*$\)
(method = 2, hops=3, path=-1)
respectively.

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