Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
>>>
>>> What do people think to use the "/:" prefix also for the local part of
>>> remote file names? Then one could use "/ssh:user@host:/:/path/~/file",
>>> making substitute-in-file-name a noop.
>>
>> Makes sense to me.
>
> I've added a patch to master which allows quoting the local part of the
> file name. Maybe you could rewrite your patch, using this feature.
>

Something like this?