Unified file-name syntax?

[Steve Youngs]

* 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?

I hate to be a party-pooper, but I very much like the fact I have to use
different filename syntax for EFS/Tramp.  I use them both everyday and I
know without a doubt that a unified syntax would bite me often and hard.

May I suggest this compromise... _Require_ the optional colon.

  Tramp filenames
        /method:user at host:/path/to/file
        /:user at host:/path/to/file  (which uses default method)

  EFS filenames
        /user at host:/path/to/file

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