From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrate Tramp Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:30:36 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206211930.g5LJUa112832@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200206171631.g5HGVBM13861@aztec.santafe.edu> <200206190223.g5J2NlQ15963@aztec.santafe.edu> <5x8z5bqvxc.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206191500.g5JF01t02039@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5xadprkl5y.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206210942.g5L9g6j20454@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024688007 28979 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2002 19:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, storm@cua.dk, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17LU9v-0007XF-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:33:27 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17LUcD-0005C1-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LU9h-0006PP-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17LU7C-00068X-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5LJUa112832; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:30:36 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5068 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5068 > The lesson I learned from this is that it is very difficult to create > a filename format without problems. Regardless of the choice, there > will be problems somewhere. Of course, it could be just me... > > It is premature to reach this conclusion fter trying only TWO formats. > Let's make at least one effort to try to solve all the problems that > are known. > > I propose /user@host: and /user@method@host: as prefixes. > The former looks like the current remote file names, > which is intentional. The latter is a variant which does not introduce > any additional special characters I believe some people already use /foo@bar@host because they need to send `foo@bar' as the user name for the ftp session. At least I seem to remember some kind of bug report about it (IIRC, the thing was partly working under Emacs but not XEmacs, but I might be confused). Stefan