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Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I propose /user@host: and /user@method@host: as prefixes.
> 
> But please, also allow just `/host:' (perhaps with appropriate
> configuration required to default the user) -- I, and I suspect many
> people, usually want to login as the same user...

> Also, the `/user@method@host:' syntax makes it impossible to specify
> _just_ a host or user and a method (or for that matter, just a method),
> which seem useful for tramp (e.g., for the `sudo' methods).

Can't you let an empty user name be the same as the current user?
Then you can specify just a host and a method by saying
`/@method@host:'.  I suppose you could do the same to omit the host:
`/user@method@:'.  Just a thought.

<snip>

Jon Cast