Re: Quoting parts or a remote file name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:23:31 +0100
> 
> in bug#16984 it was discussed, how to suppress expansion of "~" in file
> names like "/path/~/file". One possible solution is to quote the file
> name, like "/:/path/~/file".
> 
> This has the disadvantage, that remote file names are not handled
> properly, like "/:/ssh:address@hidden:/path/~/file". I made the proposal to
> apply the file name quoting to the local name of remote files instead,
> like "/ssh:address@hidden:/:/path/~/file". There was no reaction.
> 
> What do people think? Is this something we could do?

I have no objections to your proposal, but I'm not much of an expert
in this area.  I trust that you have run the relevant tests from the
test suite with such names, and they don't raise any problems?