Unified file-name syntax?

[Michael Sperber]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus at gmx.de> writes:

> Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> writes:
>
>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus at gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> The "added colon" is optional. If you have set tramp-default-method,
>>> you don't need a method specification in the file name, and the syntax
>>> looks pretty like EFS.
>>
>> ... but I assume we'd be OK if that default method were "ftp", right?
>
> Yes. But given that everybody might have her own preferences, the
> XEmacs package retrieval functions shall use
> (let ((tramp-default-method "ftp")) ...)

We can do that.

> And even then there might be surprises with Tramp 2.1, when somebody
> uses obscure tramp-default-proxies-alist settings.

But that's "somebody's" problem, so I see that as no serious obstacle.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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