Re: using emacs/efs with@ in username

[andrew dunn <andy@yage.net>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 08:28, Puff Addison wrote:
> andrew dunn wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Thanks for your reply, but thats not really the issue. The problem I'm
> >having is loading files from a remote server. Usually if I load a file
> >from a remote FTP server in XEmacs the username is something like
> >"username" and the domain will be "domain.com".
> >
> >To request this file in XEmacs I'd load it as:
> >/username@domain.com:/nameofthefile.html
> >
> >Now, the problem comes when the FTP username isn't just "username" but
> >instead something like "username@domain.com". This means when logging
> >into the server via normal FTP I enter "username@domain.com" for the
> >username.
> >
> >So whenever I want to load this file in XEmacs I'd load it as:
> >/username@domain.com@domain.com:/nameofile.html
> >
> >This equates to the required format of:
> >/USERNAME@DOMAIN:/FILE
> >
> >But if the username contains an "@" symbol then I get an error:
> >"Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
> >
> >Thats pretty much as I'd expect because there are now two "@" symbols in
> >the line, and emacs doesn't know which part is the username and which is
> >the server.
> >
> >Ive tried using:
> >/username\@domain.com@domain.com:/nameoffile.html
> >
> >But that doesn't work either.
> >
> >Do you see what I mean ? Do you have any further suggestions ?
> >
> >Thanks alot,
> >
> >Andrew.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Try
> 
> /username\\@domain.com@domain.com:/nameoffile.html
> 
> i.e a double back slash. This ensures that the @ is still escaped after the input has been read.
> 
> This  is a common problem. \ may be parsed an removed before one expects.
> 
> 
-- 
--andrew dunn
andy@yage.net
http://www.yage.net