From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: URL filename syntax? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:19:15 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84y92br2ks.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <841y051emv.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304151626.h3FGQTFk030154@beta.mvs.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050434843 11446 80.91.224.249 (15 Apr 2003 19:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 21:27:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195W5Q-0002y4-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:27:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 195W7Q-000439-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:29:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 195W3A-0004vw-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 195W2P-0004Wf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 195W2C-0004Pl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 195W0o-0003hL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195Vzl-0002Ua-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:21:29 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195Vyy-0002PO-00 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:20:40 +0200 Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xFWqp+RhI8gByGzdXUp4fCoxLEc= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13246 "Ehud Karni" writes: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:51:04 +0200, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) wrote: >> >> Is it desirable to use URL-like syntax for remote files? > > I think it is very desirable, but ONLY if the URL syntax is saved > EXACTLY as it is (may be wrapped, but not changed). Are you talking about my suggestion of changing ftp://user@host//foo to mean the same as ftp://user@host/%2Ffoo, instead of ftp://user@host/foo? It's not quite clear what you want: (a) ftp://user@host/%2Ffoo must have the standard meaning, or (b) ftp://user@host//foo must have the standard meaning (ie, same as ftp://user@host/foo), or (c) both. I agree on (a). But for (b) I'd say the added convenience outweighs the slight incompatibility with the standard. (And Tramp is incompatible with the standard anyway, since it mostly supports URL schemes like ssh, scp, su, smb, and rsync, which are not standardized.) -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)