From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tramp,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: URL-like Tramp syntax Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:05:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87eh95f1w3.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87a9jvz5b2.fsf@gmx.de> <5226075D.8050500@lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378281916 16384 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2013 08:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tramp-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Davis Herring Original-X-From: tramp-devel-bounces+get-tramp-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 04 10:05:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-tramp-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VH85W-0008U3-BA for get-tramp-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VH85V-0006mu-N2 for get-tramp-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VH85O-0006mU-EZ for tramp-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VH85I-0005pG-Ee for tramp-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:51793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VH85I-0005mN-65 for tramp-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([79.230.78.30]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0LezI3-1VmasU3bcF-00qghl for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:05:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5226075D.8050500@lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:59:25 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:8T8TupQPaNThUZI3GNxqeUY0eUi7IkoROCSkhoWZfG1NEx8vc/G wCxTZCXVIiK17cuyDKsxAqoYCmCQ80aHGeMl9f6NG6+9rWyMSAkUqxgjGk8Mw3ULMUPKntp hBazCUEb6/R0EEdcnIdjlEdH1/yyj/J+hNlWegSYXwMo+wG9n47xnoV26D9jamDXfVrJWze OJctsqZev+yDvoLCBTPJg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.19 X-BeenThere: tramp-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tramp-devel-bounces+get-tramp-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: tramp-devel-bounces+get-tramp-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:8401 gmane.emacs.devel:163182 Archived-At: Davis Herring writes: Hi Davis, > You've written recently about the inherent ambiguities of Tramp file > name syntax. Is the URL syntax (or, for that matter, the third syntax) > less problematic in this regard? It might be better to switch to it > than away from it... I don't believe this is preferred. Tramp's URL-like syntax competes with url-handlers.el. This is another reason I believe we should remove it from Tramp. If we want to solve the ambiguities in Tramp's primary syntax, we should change the separator between methods and user/host names. Or we should switch to the syntax used in XEmacs. But that's another story. > Davis Best regards, Michael.