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>
>
>I see that (expand-file-name "/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:/../emacs")
>returns "/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:/../emacs".  That is surprising;
>I expected it to return "/emacs".
>
>It would probably be easy to change this, and that change would
>probably fix the whole problem.  But was this done intentionally?
>Does it serve a specific purpose?
>
I doubt that it is intentional, but I don't know. The call is handlede by
Tramp, so it is a Tramp matter.
One more problem: The syntax to invoke the Tramp file handler
is "\`/[^/:]+:". So the handler is not invoked in the call
(expand-file-name "/emacs/../larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:."). The
call returns "/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:." but it should return
"/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:/home/l/larsh".