From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.tramp Subject: Re: URL-like Tramp syntax Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:59:25 -0600 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <5226075D.8050500@lanl.gov> References: <87a9jvz5b2.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378224021 19544 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2013 16:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tramp-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 03 18:00:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt1a-0003gi-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:00:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt1a-00075z-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt1M-0006pE-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt1E-0004GI-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint4.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.52]:33239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt0x-0004AE-RC; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailgate4.lanl.gov (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r83FxQSY004085; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:59:26 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C491125650; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:59:26 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay2.lanl.gov Original-Received: from [128.165.123.183] (xray-r06.lanl.gov [128.165.123.183]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5521125649; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:59:26 -0600 (MDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110717 Lanikai/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <87a9jvz5b2.fsf@gmx.de> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8794, 1.0.431, 0.0.0000 definitions=2013-09-03_06:2013-09-03, 2013-09-03, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 204.121.3.52 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163167 gmane.emacs.tramp:8400 Archived-At: > Tramp supports three different syntaxes for remote files, see variable > `tramp-syntax'. According to the bug reports over the last 9 years, the > URL-like syntax hasn't been used ever (IIRC). > > Therefore, I plan to remove it from the upcoming Tramp 2.2.8. At some > few places, this will also simplify the implementation. You've written recently about the inherent ambiguities of Tramp file name syntax. Is the URL syntax (or, for that matter, the third syntax) less problematic in this regard? It might be better to switch to it than away from it... Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.