Re: Change Tramp syntax (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 37b88d7: Fix bug#23006)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:14:21 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Maybe we shall start a poll, in emacs-devel, emacs-help and
> tramp-devel. We should not ask what a user prefers (many of them will
> prefer not to type a method). They question must be what will be broken
> if we stop support for ange-ftp syntax "/host:/path/to/file".
> 
> This would also mean, that we cannot support default methods anymore. A
> file name with a default method would look like "/:host:/path/to/file",
> which is already the quoted file name syntax.
> 
> John? Eli?

I didn't use ange-ftp syntax in a decade.  Not sure what others do,
but my impression is that Tramp methods are the only game in town.