From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-relative-name and remote files Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:08:59 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <841y1eq6t0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <3E6DB4DF.1070307@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047395369 16957 80.91.224.249 (11 Mar 2003 15:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 16:09:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18slNd-0004Ot-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:09:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18slkQ-0000c7-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:32:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18slO4-0004yJ-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18slNj-0004dL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18slNW-0003nY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18slNT-0003af-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18slMm-0004Ke-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:08:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18slMl-0004KG-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:08:31 +0100 Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VXH8Z81ZwQMk+JLg+6o40HMHsHE= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12272 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12272 Lars Hansen writes: > Maybe the "/bla/../foo:" problem could be solved the following way: > Change the file handler syntax from "^/[^/:]+:" to "/[^/:]+:" to invoke > Tramp. Let Tramp call expand-file-name on "/bla/..". If this expands to > "/" everything is fine, otherwise barf. 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. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.