Re: file-relative-name and remote files

[Lars Hansen]

> I see that (expand-file-name "/address@hidden:/../emacs")
> returns "/address@hidden:/../emacs".  That is surprising;
> I expected it to return "/emacs".
>
> It would probably be easy to change this, and that change would
> probably fix the whole problem.  But was this done intentionally?
> Does it serve a specific purpose?
I doubt that it is intentional, but I don't know. The call is handlede by
Tramp, so it is a Tramp matter.
One more problem: The syntax to invoke the Tramp file handler
is "\`/[^/:]+:". So the handler is not invoked in the call
(expand-file-name "/emacs/../address@hidden:."). The
call returns "/address@hidden:." but it should return
"/address@hidden:/home/l/larsh".