Unified file-name syntax?

[Michael Albinus]

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")) ...)

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

Best regards, Michael.