bug#5303: 23.1.91; Cannot load .emacs-history from savehist.el

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Another question is why fd is -2.  That means `openp' detected that
>> C:/the-file.el is a ``magic'' file, i.e. it has a file handler.  But
>> this happens in a recursive call to `load', the one where, as Michael
>> says:
>>
>>> the last action I can see is disabling Tramp' file name completion
>>> handler, and calling `load', again.
>>
>> It looks like disabling Tramp's file name completion handler does not
>> prevent `openp' from thinking that C:/the-file.el has a handler.
>
> Tramp inhibits the file name handler of `load'. `openp' checks for a
> file name handler of `file-exists-p', which is not inhibited.


But how is tramp-completion-file-name-handler involved there?