tramp and cygwin-mount

[Jason Dufair]

Hi Kai and all -

I've decided to try and get my NTEmacs working nicely once and for all. 
 This includes, amongst other things, getting tramp and cygwin-mount to 
play nicely together.  Currently, when tramp connects to the remote host 
(via sshx in my case), it tries to test for the existence of several 
paths/files, but somehow, the paths/files end up getting expanded by the 
cygwin-mount package and try to test for local cygwin dirs on the remote 
host.

I've figured out how to get the emacs debugger working and think I've 
found where the two get entangled.  About 10 lines into 
tramp-handle-expand-file-name, there is a call to 
(tramp-run-real-handler 'expand-file-name (list name nil)).  In the 
debugger, it shows that expand-file-name has a hook which calls 
cygwin-mount-name-hook-function which then bungles up the file name 
(i.e. ~ expands to my home directory on the local machine even though 
tramp is ssh'ed into a remote machine and is sending commands over there).

This is where the limits of my understanding of tramp and emacs and lisp 
hit the wall.  Is there any way to allow tramp to make the call to 
expand-file-name without the cygwin hook?

Thanks for tramp and for any help.
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