From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quoting parts or a remote file name Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:38:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83fum9q8oz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpfloxlo.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480520485 31508 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2016 15:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 16:41:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cC70T-0006Wl-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:41:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC70X-00080v-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:41:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC6xw-000605-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC6xt-0003Q6-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cC6xt-0003Q0-AU; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2142 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cC6xs-0007Y2-JQ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:38:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wpfloxlo.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:23:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209807 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:23:31 +0100 > > 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:user@host:/path/~/file". I made the proposal to > apply the file name quoting to the local name of remote files instead, > like "/ssh:user@host:/:/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?