Re: URL syntax (was: Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards)

[Kai Großjohann]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

> But I don't think that the current way substitute-in-file-name
> checks for file-name-handlers is enough since the url file-name-handler
> will simply not be called on file names like "/foo/http://blabla";.

Is it okay to require the user to type "/foo//http://blabla";, with two
slashes after "foo"?  Then the URL filename handler could match
"\\`/?http:" and similar patterns, with the initial slash being
optional.

Would that work?

kai
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