Re: A partial implementation (was Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs)

That is true. I did this hoping to make the // feature less deeply embedded in Emacs. The code below is a really simple proof-of-concept handler. Load it up and try it! To make this work for real, some extra effort will be necessary to make it bullet-proof and to figure out the semantics of filenames in ftp URLs. I encourage people to keep working on this, and get experience with it. If the problem can be solved and gives reliable results, I would be happy to make Emacs support URL syntax.