Re: using emacs/efs with@ in username

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

andrew dunn <info@myperl.cc> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Ive been using XEmacs now with my own server for quite some time,
> opening and saving documents remotely using the format:
> /user@domain.com:/file.html
> 
> Recently Ive had to start editing files on a server that includes the @
> symbol in the username (e.g. 'user@domain.com'), which seems to make it
> impossible to open files correctly.
> 
> The format for opening now becomes:
> /user@domain.com@domain.com:/file.html
> 
> As you'd expect this doesn't work because it doesn't know which @ symbol
> is part of the username, and which one separates the user from the
> domain. I hope this is clear what my problem is, and there is some kind
> of simple solution.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> -- 
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Longshot here but I ran into one of these things once and in my
particular case I was able to use % instead of @ as a delimiter in
the username. You might want to try that.

Unfortunately odds are you won't be so lucky.

Bijan