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

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It all depends what you want to know.  In doc-view, we recently tried to
> use file-remote-p in order to figure out whether we could pass the file
> name to a local process, only to discover that it wasn't the right
> predicate to use.
It seems there are two uses for such a predicate. One is to find out if 
local processes can be used on the file, the other to find out if the 
connection may be slow or unavailable. The current version of the 
function doesn't really cater to either use properly.