Re: file-relative-name and remote files

[Kai Großjohann]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> Maybe the "/bla/../foo:" problem could be solved the following way:
> Change the file handler syntax from "^/[^/:]+:" to "/[^/:]+:" to invoke
> Tramp. Let Tramp call expand-file-name on "/bla/..". If this expands to
> "/" everything is fine, otherwise barf.

I think it is not a good idea to change the filename syntax in such a
way, for that would mean that people can't use filenames with colons
in them anymore.  That would be too drastic, I think.

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