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

[William M. Perry]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Another alternative would be to change the concept of "filenames"
>     within Emacs into "URLs", so that if you want to access a local
>     filename you say file:~/.emacs or something.
> 
> No thanks.  That would be terrible.

Agreed - `real' filenames still need to work.  Not even I would stoop to
using file: just to get URLs to work. :)

-bp
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