Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:


>> Before I report a bug for Emacs 26, I want to confirm an issue.
>
> Wouldn't be a problem for me. Closing bugs as not-a-bug is so easy, in
> case of :-)

You're right, but I was skeptical and guessed the issue came from me
(which seems to be the case).

>>   C-x C-f /ssh:me@example.com|sudo:localhost:/etc/deluser.conf
>
> I don't know whether it is related, but the second host name shall be
> the same like the first one. Something like
> /ssh:me@example.com|sudo:example.com:/etc/deluser.conf

Thanks, that fixes the issue.  However now I'm wondering why for some
files it works with the second host being "sudo:localhost".

I'll set tramp-verbose to 6 to see what actually happens.

Cheers,
Nico