From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp question Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:05:05 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <874qvz17ge.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <8765gge2pu.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071696078 14377 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 21:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 22:21:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWj6U-0004XR-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWk2S-0007rT-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:21:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071695118 6680154 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/RqxaJZJD/L4bSqJhMI6krF8cpo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119457 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15396 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15396 tfb@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes: > Why not go with the simpler, familar scheme using backslashes, where > "\x" makes x have no special significance, and "\\" denotes ?\ . That's an idea. I didn't think of this because in general the aim appears to be to move to a URL-like notation for file names. Hm. Also, Emacs on Windows uses both / and \ as a directory separator. So it might get confused. Kai