Unified file-name syntax?

[Steve Youngs]

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

I apologise for this not being a reply to Michael Albinus' message and
mucking up everyone's threading, but I don't seem to be getting his
posts from xemacs-beta. :-(

  >> Steve Youngs <steve at sxemacs.org> writes:
  >> 
  >>> 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)
  >> 
  >> In GNU Emacs, "/:" at the beginning of a file name means to quote this
  >> name. This would disable Tramp handlers for this file name.
  >> 
  >> But don't panic, the idea is not to remove the syntax you like. We are
  >> just speaking about a common default for the syntax. Today, it is
  >> 'ftp for GNU Emacs and 'sep for XEmacs. If you apply
  >> 
  >> (setq tramp-syntax 'sep)

Ah, this is good news.  I'm happy with that.  Thanks for putting my mind
at ease, Michael.


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