Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Michael,

> in bug#16984 it was discussed, how to suppress expansion of "~" in file
> names like "/path/~/file". One possible solution is to quote the file
> name, like "/:/path/~/file".
>
> This has the disadvantage, that remote file names are not handled
> properly, like "/:/ssh:user@host:/path/~/file". I made the proposal to
> apply the file name quoting to the local name of remote files instead,
> like "/ssh:user@host:/:/path/~/file". There was no reaction.
>
> What do people think? Is this something we could do?

I had a look at the discussion about bug#16984, and I think your
proposal makes sense.

I'm wondering, why don't we have an escape character for this, for
instance:

  /ssh:user@host:/path/\~/file

Although using backslash is probably a bad idea.

Cheers,
Nico