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: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19 Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:39:48 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <848yvpudl7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <3E69AA8E.6020404@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 1047134442 24571 80.91.224.249 (8 Mar 2003 14:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 15:40:41 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 18rfVB-0006OA-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18rfqV-00059r-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 16:02:44 +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 18rfV8-0007Od-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rfUn-000779-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:40:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rfUf-0006rb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rfUY-0006X7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 09:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rfTu-0006Jo-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:39:22 +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 18rfTu-0006Jf-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2003 15:39:22 +0100 Original-Lines: 25 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:Xf/2Ko+2tJDWcVBTgjEvNC8/U9c= 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:12177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12177 Lars Hansen writes: > If the second view is given the highest precedence, "/x/.." should expand > to "/" independently of what "x" is. Thus "/root@foo:/.." as well as > "/foo:../.." > should expand to "/". That just doesn't make sense. It neglects "~". IMHO, a filename such as "~/../bla" makes perfect sense, and I think that "~" should be expanded first, before processing "..". What do you think? For Tramp, filenames "/foo:bar" where "bar" is a relative name are considered to be equivalent to "/foo:~/bar". Ayee. Once upon a time, Tramp would barf on "/foo:bar", but users didn't want to type the extra two characters to use "/foo:~/bar" instead. So I fixed it up such that "/foo:bar" worked. Now it's haunting me, I think. Anyhow, I think it is not a good idea to make "/foo:bar" and "/foo:~/bar" different in such a subtle way. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.