Re: URL syntax (was: Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards)

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

 PA> Yes, that was basically the idea.  So the idea was to swicth to
 PA> URL syntax for everything bul local filenames, in particular ftp.

Including escaping non-URL characters?

 PA> To open a (rare) local file name that could also be an URL, use
 PA> the URL syntax (file: ...).

What about the other cases of filename quoting (`/:')?

 PA> An additional advantage is that there are standards covering most
 PA> of what we want to do, 

Specifically not rcp access...

As far as I know, character encoding issues aren't usefully addressed
yet, or are they?