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>
>
>I think it is not a good idea to change the filename syntax in such a
>way, for that would mean that people can't use filenames with colons
>in them anymore.  That would be too drastic, I think.
>
>Our BibTeX citation keys are of the form Smith:95, and we store the
>corresponding fulltext documents in files named after the citation
>key.
>
Clearly colons in names of files in directories other than root should
be allowed. Tramp should not barf, it should just call the normal
handler. Would that not work?