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Re: Current Tramp plans
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Current Tramp plans |
Date: |
22 Jun 2002 02:07:32 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> Kai:
> /address@hidden:file
> Because I really doubt that square brackets in the user
> name are actually needed.
> And if they are needed, people can just say something like
> /address@hidden:file
> This will use the sm method, connect to host zz, and use
> the user name "[xx]yy".
> Since square brackets are quite rare, I don't think
> it matters that people have to type a slightly longer
> filename in this case.
Well, in some contexts (such as ido with regexp matching), using
square brackets in a file name component is "normal" behaviour.
I would recommend using a syntax which does not conflict with
normal regexp syntax.
> /address@hidden:file
> because `#' is already used by Ange-FTP as a special character
I think this is a good compromise.
Also, with ftp method, it is possible to specify the port as in
/address@hidden:file
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk