Re: tramp-do-copy-or-rename-via-buffer doesn't work for XEmacs

[Michael Albinus]

Tetsuo Tsukamoto <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi.

Hi,

> Under XEmacs, files on a remote host cannot be copied to the
> localhost, complaining "No such file or directory".
>
> The problem is caused by incompatibility of function
> insert-file-contents-literally between FSF Emacs and XEmacs.  It
> is called in tramp-do-copy-or-rename-via-buffer.
>
> The FSF version of the function binds variable
> inhibit-file-name-handlers for disabling jka-compr and image
> specifically, whereas the XEmacs' one binds
> file-name-handler-alist to nil, which also disables
> tramp-file-name-handler.
>
>
> I think this needs to be fixed.

That's right. The question is whether XEmacs needs to be corrected,
or Tramp should use another implementation but
insert-file-contents-literally.

Best regards, Michael.