Re: using emacs/efs with@ in username

[Puff Addison <puff@theaddisons.demon.co.uk>]

andrew dunn wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for your reply, but thats not really the issue. The problem I'm
>having is loading files from a remote server. Usually if I load a file
>from a remote FTP server in XEmacs the username is something like
>"username" and the domain will be "domain.com".
>
>To request this file in XEmacs I'd load it as:
>/username@domain.com:/nameofthefile.html
>
>Now, the problem comes when the FTP username isn't just "username" but
>instead something like "username@domain.com". This means when logging
>into the server via normal FTP I enter "username@domain.com" for the
>username.
>
>So whenever I want to load this file in XEmacs I'd load it as:
>/username@domain.com@domain.com:/nameofile.html
>
>This equates to the required format of:
>/USERNAME@DOMAIN:/FILE
>
>But if the username contains an "@" symbol then I get an error:
>"Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
>
>Thats pretty much as I'd expect because there are now two "@" symbols in
>the line, and emacs doesn't know which part is the username and which is
>the server.
>
>Ive tried using:
>/username\@domain.com@domain.com:/nameoffile.html
>
>But that doesn't work either.
>
>Do you see what I mean ? Do you have any further suggestions ?
>
>Thanks alot,
>
>Andrew.
>
>
>  
>
Try

/username\\@domain.com@domain.com:/nameoffile.html

i.e a double back slash. This ensures that the @ is still escaped after the input has been read.

This  is a common problem. \ may be parsed an removed before one expects.





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