Re: Help: how to obtain a correct file path from a possible absolute or relative path considering remote environment

[Fan Yang]

2020年1月3日 20:39，Michael Albinus <address@hidden> 写道：
> 
> Attempt 3 seems to be OK to me. I don't understand your problem with
> Windows;

Here is my concern.  Suppose the remote machine is Windows, and the
command line tool outputs an absolute path name "E:/xxx/xxx”.

Then maybe I suppose to generate a path like “scp:user@machine:E:/xxx/xxx”.
But `(file-name-absolute-p “E:/xxx/xxx”)’ is `nil’ (on a Linux local
machine) so it will end up with a path like 
“scp:user@machine:<default-directory>/E:/xxx/xxx”, which is
incorrect.

However, currently I don’t have a Windows machine to test it out.  So 
above is just my guess.

> I do not expect Tramp to run process-file on a remote Windows machine.

Do you mean Tramp does not work if the remote machine is Windows?  If
that is the case, I can close this question now :)

Fan