new vc rcs file checkin problem with tramp

[Michael Albinus]

Ville Skyttä <scop at xemacs.org> writes:

> Hopefully so.  However this is something I'm afraid we'll need to take care of 
> without waiting for that to happen, so if you (or someone else) has other 
> suggestions to try, I'd be glad to hear about them (and even more glad to see 
> patches ;))

It is even worse. In Tramp 2.0, tramp-handle-process-file calls
internally shell-command. The latter function does not support the
file-name-handler mechanism in XEmacs, so there is no chance that
process-file works properly with Tramp 2.0 and XEmacs.

> If nothing comes up, I'm inclined to apply the ugly patch I posted and 
> accompany it with a warning that it won't work for tramp >= 2.1 and perhaps 
> additionally wrap it so that if it fails, it does so with an understandable 
> explanation what happened.

That seems to be the last resort.

Best regards, Michael.