Re: Bug#278550: tramp: Dangerous fset of substitute-in-file-name

[Matt Hodges <MPHodges@member.fsf.org>]

>>>>> Toby Speight writes:

 > I recently discovered problems with code that used
 > substitute-in-file-name to expand environment variables in file
 > names. It turned out that the name in question was not having its
 > environment variables expanded correctly.

 > Subsequent investigation showed that substitute-in-file-name is
 > fbound to 'identity.

I already reported this problem, and it is apparently fixed in the
upstream CVS sources. It should therefore be in Tramp 2.0.46, when
released.

See, for example:

    <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2004-10/msg00062.html>

and followups.

Matt