Re: Emacs syntax for filenames to mean "absolute location on the current remote host"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:30:45 +0200
> 
> What if you declare, that in Eshell an absolute file name "/foo/bar" is
> always on "host"? Then it doesn't matter, whether a user writes "cd /foo/bar"
> or "*cd /foo/bar". This would cover most use cases in Eshell, and it is
> simpler to type than "cd /.:/foo/bar".
> 
> In the few cases a user means the local absolute file name "/foo/bar",
> she still can type "cd /:/foo/bar".

I like this suggestion, FWIW.  It's simple to remember, easy to use,
and doesn't require us to come up with a whole new slew of handlers.