Re: Current Tramp plans

[Sam Steingold]

> * In message <address@hidden>
> * On the subject of "Re: Current Tramp plans"
> * Sent on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:28:10 +0200
> * Honorable address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > * The longterm goal is to unify the Tramp and Ange-FTP filenames, and
> >   to use a format for the filenames which is a superset of the
> >   Ange-FTP format.
> 
> If we want to be on the safe side, then Tramp should assume all
> filenames that look like "/address@hidden:path" are Ange-FTP filenames.
> This means Emacs behaves as before, and people can customize
> tramp-default-method-alist and tramp-default-method to change this
> behavior.

I would urge you to use URLs (suitably extended)
the Emacs "//" feature can be modified to ignore "^[a-z]*://".

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