Re: file-relative-name and remote files

[Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk>]

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>Also, this burden is on every file handler.
>Note that every operation needs to do the additional "did it match at
>the beginning" check!
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>The alternative would be to change expand-file-name as I suggested:
>if there was no handler, do your thing and then look if there is
>another handler to invoke, and if so, then invoke it.
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>Apart from the implementation considerations, there is also the
>conceptual level: IMHO, the ..-leads-to-different-handler problem is a
>general problem that does not depend on any specific handler.  So this
>general problem should be handled in the general code, rather than
>requiring every handler to deal with this case.
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Whatever solution is chosen, I think it would be a good idea with some 
general code rather than leaving it to every handler to implement a 
solution.

To me it sounds as a good solution to have expand-file-name, after the 
expansion, check for a handler and call it if one is found, in addition 
to doing it before the expansion. But I think this should be done only 
if we find that it is the correct thin to do from a general point of 
view - not just to solve a specific problem in an easy way. But maybe it 
is the rigth thing. What do people think?