Re: Quoting parts or a remote file name

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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?

I've implemented this now, patch pushed to master. Most of the test
cases in tramp-tests have been extended accordingly.

Best regards, Michael.