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

[Kai Großjohann]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> The URL file name handler doesn't seem to like being nestled:
>
> (expand-file-name "foo" (file-name-as-directory
>                        (expand-file-name "foo:bar"
>                                          gnus-cache-directory)))
> "foo:foo"
>
> it should return:
>
> (expand-file-name "foo" (file-name-as-directory
>                        (expand-file-name "foo:bar"
>                                          gnus-cache-directory)))
> "/home/jas/News/cache/foo:bar/foo"

You can use "/:" to disambiguate.  Hm.  But it appears difficult to
figure out just where this should be used.

Maybe users of this feature need to frob
nnheader-file-name-translation-alist if they want to use Gnus.

kai
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