Re: Integrate Tramp

[Stefan Monnier]

>     The lesson I learned from this is that it is very difficult to create
>     a filename format without problems.  Regardless of the choice, there
>     will be problems somewhere.  Of course, it could be just me...
> 
> It is premature to reach this conclusion fter trying only TWO formats.
> Let's make at least one effort to try to solve all the problems that
> are known.
> 
> I propose /address@hidden: and /address@hidden@host: as prefixes.
> The former looks like the current remote file names,
> which is intentional.  The latter is a variant which does not introduce
> any additional special characters

I believe some people already use /address@hidden@host because they need to
send address@hidden' as the user name for the ftp session.  At least I seem
to remember some kind of bug report about it (IIRC, the thing
was partly working under Emacs but not XEmacs, but I might be
confused).


        Stefan